Amazon Takes Pikachu To The Patent Office

theodp writes "On Tuesday, Amazon was awarded a patent for Search Query Autocompletion. From the Summary of the Invention--'For example, if Pokemon toys are currently the best selling or most-frequently-searched-for items within the database, the term POKEMON may be suggested whenever a user enters the letters "PO," even though many hundreds of other items in the database may start with "PO.'" See, Amazon practices the mantra "Gotta catch 'em all" with patents.

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Here we go again

[IWantMoreSpamPlease]

It's the "Who do we like this week?" game-

MS - Still bad
IBM - Good, this week, check back next week
Linus - Good this week, insofar as I know
Oracle - ??? (profit or no profit)
Apple - Bad this week
Disney - Still bad
Amazon - Today they are bad, tomorrow..???

Okay, I'm done..who else has changed sides?

This is killing me, I want off

[pearcewg]

I understand what they are doing, and it's killing me. Stop this stinking ride, I want to get off. 1. Technicolor Yawn 2. Singing Lunch 3. Yelling Europe at the Toilet and the list goes on... THIS HAS TO STOP SOMEWHERE

Re:Frist 'I'm going to patent xxxxx then' Post!!!!

[Gleng]

Huh, well, I'm going to patent sitting masturbating in my Mom's basement installing Linux then!

That's GNU/Masturbating.

Re:Next year..

[rmadmin]

Well if it wasn't for prior art, they'd probably have "Fucking people up the ass" patented.

yeah the patent system's broken....

[gnurb]

but i admire the hell out of them for making the system work in their advantage

really makes me want to go out and patent some nifty software idea just to see if it would go through