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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. So by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what?

  2. -1, Troll by Gothmolly · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    who modded this up?

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    I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
  3. Re:-1, Troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    who hasn't modded the parent down?

  4. Welcome back by Cally · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Where the hell was slashdot for the last 6-8 hours? it was answering pings for a while but not accessible on tcp/80. Traceroutes from here and other places (see traceroute.org - U Orgeon is a good site) were dying at the last hop with !H (ie host not accessible.) Interestingly traceroutes from within Savvis (Slashdot's upstream provider) were fine,even from Amsterdam. Any chance of a post-mortem? Major BGP brainfarto perhaps? Enquiring minds want to know...

    Yeah yeah, Off Topic, I know, mod me down *sigh*

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    1. Re:Welcome back by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      wow! Don't you have anything better to do with your life than analyzing traceroutes when Slashdot is down for a couple hours?