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Amazon Scores Another Patent

Posted by michael on from the one-click dept.

theodp writes "Chalk up yet another patent for Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, this time for a Method and system for conducting a discussion relating to an item."

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  1. Well now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We're all quite in the shit here at Slashdot, are we not?

  2. Not being a laywer.... by cybermace5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's difficult to tell. But it does look like they patented the concept of having a discussion board linked to a product.

    I should probably go ahead and patent "A method for mass advertising using electronic messaging to a group of recipients" and go for the spammers. But there there isn't much money in repo'd trailer houses.

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  3. Metapatent by jmoriarty · · Score: 5, Funny

    Up next Amazon is going to patent being the company to first patent common sense procedures that shouldn't be patentable in the first place.

    This will save them considerable time, and automatically grandfather in everything they haven't tried to patent yet, including such classics as "Allowing full sentences to be used to describe product", "Shipping material ordered by people from our site", and "Using vowels in our company name".

    (This message Patent Pending)

  4. YES... oh YES... by MosesJones · · Score: 4, Funny


    This means I can cancel all of my meetings. After all discussing things on the agenda would violate the patent and I wouldn't want that.

    Oh hang on this means that its okay as long as it isn't structured around a topic. Damn you Amazon for condeming us all to a world which only contains long rambling ill focused meetings.

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  5. Re:This is a joke right? by PygmyTrojan · · Score: 5, Funny
    No, No, the trick with these patents is:

    Drinking wine by removing the cork to allow the wine to pass trough the bottleneck, on the web

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  6. .au patent office asleep at "the wheel" by yerricde · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is the patent office asleep at the wheel?

    I'd think the USPTO is asleep at the wheel in the figurative sense, but the Australian patent office is asleep at the wheel in the literal sense. In fact, the Australian patent office was so asleep that it granted a patent on the wheel.

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