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Judge's Ruling Spares 1-Click
theodp writes "Agreeing with Amazon's characterization of its 1-Click feature as a feature of an electronic product ordering system and not an electronic fund transfer or transaction system, a Judge has tossed out a $50M lawsuit that threatened Amazon's 1-Click patent. But outside of Court, Amazon touts its patent-pending Amazon Honor System as a way for Web sites to use 1-Click shopping technology for voluntary payment transactions - most notably for 9-11 donations and campaign contributions - that do not involve consumer goods or Amazon-specified prices, which the Judge argues are essential 1-Click ingredients."
Interesting, but you must realize:
Devising a 2-click shopping mechanism is simply the 1-click mechanism two times. Now you're in violation twice.
Indeed, how is it different from clicking submit when I complete this post?
/. servers store my username, preference settings, etc. I only have to login the one time to my account so I can single-click the submit button to post my statement.
The
Some of these patents are way out there. I like to shop at Amazon, but a one click patent, come on? It reminds of that company that tryed to patent linking, now that would have killed the internet, crazy.
roamingfeet
First Microsoft filed a patent for double-clicking, and now Amazon has a single-click patent. Geez!
Sig Nature
I've already got a better method. I've patented 0-click shopping. If you mouseover anything in my store, you buy it. I've placed all the popular items in the center of the pages with the overpriced crap around it.
Combined with my no-return policy, business is booming!