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The Grinch Who Patented Christmas

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the in-the-future-everything-will-be-patented dept.

theodp writes "The USPTO has reversed its earlier rejection and notified Amazon that the patent application for CEO Jeff Bezos' invention, Coordinating Delivery of a Gift, has been examined and is allowed for issuance as a patent. BTW, Amazon was represented before the USPTO by Perkins Coie, who also supplied Bezos with legal muscle in his personal fight against zoning laws that threatened to curb the size of his Medina mansion (reg.) before the City of Medina eventually gave up on regulating the size of homes (reg.)."

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  1. Thanks! by Mark_MF-WN · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    On behalf of the world, I thank the US for once again lowering the bar for all of us. The USPTO is truly the archetype of corrupt lazy beauracries.

    Seriously -- when are Americans going to curb-stomp their government and government agencies back into reality? How long are the politics of fear and stupidity going to rule? How long until Americans stop voting for lizards, just to make sure that the wrong lizard doesn't elected? Or shirking the blame because they voted for Kodos?

    Bah. Stupid yankee assholes. I'd hate them if the rest of us weren't following in their footsteps as fast as we possibly can. I hassle my local parliment-monkey by email all the time (and I try to get through to him on the phone). What more can one do to fend of the scourge of American-style idiot-patents? In Canada, there's really nothing we can do about them, thanks to our patent treaties.