FFII vs. Amazon Gift Ordering Patent

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday January 25, 2004 @04:21AM from the fighting-the-good-fight dept.

Elektroschock writes "The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure fights in court against Amazon.com's Gift ordering patent. It is about ordering gifts via email and phone communication. Amazon's gift ordering patent is seen as a danger for webdesigners and E-Commerce in Europe. It is derived from the well-known Amazon.com's 1-click patent. The flowers distributor Fleurop and Germany's Computer Acience Association "Gesellschaft fur Informatik" untertake similar legal action against Amazon's trivial patent. FFII's Hartmut Pilch said the fight against patents was not over. It is a cheap opportunity to get some exercise in patent litigation."

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Fight now! by mankey+wanker · 2004-01-25 08:22 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Patents are nice when they are handled properly. Then again, maybe that's impossible and the era of such rights is now past.

http://www.thecorporation.tv/

What the corporation wants is more, fucker. And it doesn't care about you.

This is what happens when you let a fiction of law have the rights of a person. Why keep extending those rights? Because corporations may never die -- they're not MORTAL.

Get it? Now it ALL starts to make sense, doesn't it?

When corporations have the rights of persons, natural persons are less important.