Amazon Seeks '2-Click' Shopping Cart Patent

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 19, 2002 @06:42AM from the more-numbers-on-the-way dept.

theodp writes "Looks like Amazon's really getting back in the patent game. Today, the USPTO published Amazon's patent application for conducting electronic commerce using multiple shopping carts. Using the invention, a shopper purchasing items for five relatives can set up one shopping cart for each relative, a shopper purchasing books for Johnny can name one of his shopping carts "Johnny's books", and a shopper can add items to multiple shopping carts with only two mouse clicks." This might also be a good time to point out to those who didn't see it the first time AOL's patent claims regarding "Instant Message" technology; you may be able to think of some prior art.

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Re:Instant Message Patent--Zephyr by frotty · 2002-12-19 07:16 · Score: 0, Troll

Wow, this sounds *exactly* like AOL IM... /sarcasm off

Are you arguing that the first application of a patent to a patent office that gets accepted is bogus? Or is this really a bitter denouncement that you should've thought to do it first?

Money = Power, right?

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