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Amazon Sued Over Recommendation Patent

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stupid-patents-come-full-circle dept.

PaschalNee writes "Cendant is suing Amazon for their recommendation patent saying it infringes on a "System and Method for Providing Recommendation of Goods or Services Based on Recorded Purchasing History" patent they own. "

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  1. Good! Bittter sweet irony. by rainman_bc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    After the BS around one-click shopping, Amazon gets exactly what they deserve.

    If it was anyone else being sued, I'd think this is getting really stupid. I mean, why not patent line-ups? Where does this crap end?

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  2. Talked about this yesterday. by blanks · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This deals with something that use used by thousands of websites, I even wrote a web application about 5 years ago that did this, and if I remember this patent is only about a year old? (could be wrong). Basically they say they own the idea of listing other customers opinions or recamendations of different products. For example, if you were looking at a pc, you would have things suchs as Members to ordered this product also ordered this monitor, or feedback about the pc from customers who did buy the item etc. This is totally a prior art situation, I dont know why this company didnt go after smaller companies, but if they get their trial by jury that would be a very very bad thing...

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  3. Bezos Told You So... by lousyd · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When Amazon first got their infamous 1-Click patent, the response Jeff Bezos gave to the people who were up in arms over the patent issue was that it was defensive patenting. He said Amazon was patenting it just so that somebody else wouldn't and then sue them. It appears this story is a case of "I told you so", for Bezos.

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    1. Re:Bezos Told You So... by Rashkae · · Score: 4, Interesting

      And of course, that must be why he "defensively" sued B&N? Jeff's definition of defensive means to defend against competitors competing, not against lawsuits.