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Amazon Takes Pikachu To The Patent Office

Posted by Hemos on from the it's-not-"would-be-nice-to-catch-them-all" dept.

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.

2 of 334 comments (clear)

  1. everyone should do this at least once... by Mr.+Tambourine+Man · · Score: 0, Troll

    http://www.colonblow.com WARNING: The pics are not for the squeamish!

  2. patent this u dim wits by liquidvapour · · Score: 0, Troll

    [rantMode=on] i'm going to patent masturbation/ then these eejts are going to have to pay me for something that i didn't think/ that's not a new idea and everyone's doing anyway people used to patent things like the light bulb or telephonic communication/ you know that things are getting bad then this is as good as it gets [rantMode=off]