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O'Reilly On What Happened To BountyQuest
theodp writes "In his latest Ask Tim, Tim O'Reilly suggests the failure of BountyQuest could be blamed on the inability of amateurs to penetrate the patent mess, noting that numerous people sent in what they thought was important prior art on the Amazon 1-Click patent, but the attorneys who reviewed it didn't find it useful. But in this case, the "amateurs" included two patent attorneys (one an ex-USPTO examiner), who found their 1-Click prior art rejected by BountyQuest for not being specific to the Web, an argument a Federal Court told Amazon a month earlier was an irrelevant distinction that could not be used to exclude prior art. Interestingly, O'Reilly goes on to say that he now has a killer piece of 1-Click prior art 'on my bookshelf, in the odd event that Amazon loses its senses and sues anyone else over 1-click.'"
O'Reilly goes on to say that he now has a killer piece of 1-Click prior art 'on my bookshelf,
A TV remote control, i.e. used for pay-per-view pr0n purchases from the sofa?
Searching for prior art is too difficult, what we need is something where you can just click once to find what you need.
--It's Pimptastic!--
The damn thing sounds like a merge of a paper-town company with a telco !
I wonder if they were competitive with Brawny-Verizon?
Forget Amazon suing anyone else over one-click; what if someone else loses their senses and licenses one-click? What then?
What Mr O'Reilly has as prior art is the following
1) Own publishers
2) Put all of your books on one shelf
3) Remove from shelf
This can be made online by sending an IM to his secretary in one click to get the book.
Sincerly
Jeff Bozos Lawyers
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
Well, yeah... 100 Libraries of Congress is an AWFUL lot of code. ;)
"...how many lines of C would you say a master programmer can output in two to three days? "
The studies say 20-30 lines.