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Amazon Wants Patent for All-You-Can-Eat Shipping

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the patent-system-still-broken dept.

theodp writes "USPTO documents released Thursday show that Amazon is seeking a patent covering subscription-based shipping, aka Amazon Prime. Among the seven listed inventors is Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who has been singing the praises of Amazon Prime to Wall Street."

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  1. All-You-Can-Eat Shipping? by smooth+wombat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does anyone know if All-You-Can-Eat shipping means, All-You-Can-Eat shipping? After all, we wouldn't want this to occur, now would we?

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    Lionel Hutz: Now, Mrs. Simpson, tell the court in your own words what happened after you and your husband were ejected out of the restaurant.

    Marge: Well, we pretty much went straight home.

    Lionel Hutz: Mrs. Simpson, remember that you are under oath.

    Marge: We drove around until three in the morning looking for another open all-you-can-eat seafood restaurant.

    Lionel Hutz: And when you couldn't find one?

    Marge: [crying] We... went... fishing.

    Lionel Hutz: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, do these sound like the actions of a man whose had ALL he could eat?

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  2. For pity's sake. by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny

    A clerk with the USPTO released the following response:

    "OK, Amazon, I get it! You like patents. You like them a lot. Everywhere I turn in my crappy office, it's "Amazon!" "Amazon!" "AMAZON!" Well screw it, you can just have all the goddamn patents! Yes, all of them,! They're all yours! Just LEAVE ME ALOOOOONE!!!"

    Said clerk followed up by darting into a shadowy corner of the file room, and crying for several hours.

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  3. Re:I don't understand... by Wyrd01 · · Score: 3, Funny
    With stupid patents like this:
    I wouldn't be surprised at any new patents that come out these days. Let's all just hope for a complete overhaul of our patent system.
  4. Cool! by famebait · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm off to patent shipping exactly three items in the same parcel.

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  5. Re:I don't understand... by B11 · · Score: 2, Funny

    How dare you insult the intelligence of a room full of cocker spaniels, you insensitive clod!

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  6. All-You-Can-Eat Shipping? by dzfoo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is this like a Godzilla reference?

          -dZ.

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