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Amazon's Lawyers Jerking USPTO Around?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the unleash-the-busy-work dept.

theodp writes "Reacting to an actor's do-it-yourself legal effort that triggered a reexam of Amazon.com's 1-Click patent, attorneys for Amazon have fired back, deluging the USPTO with documents to review, including Wikipedia articles. With the latest batch, Amazon's high-priced law firm even requested that USTPO examiners review an archived page of Norm Quotes (yes, Norm from Cheers) and rule that it does not invalidate CEO Jeff Bezos' 1-Click patent."

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  1. I think most will agree by jettawu · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think most people reading /. would agree that software patents (especially one as obvious as a one-click cart) should not exist. Even if you are siding for software patents, I think that many of Amazon's should still be reviewed.

  2. Re:The Smackdown by node+3 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Spoken like a true sociopath.

    While it's true that the lawmakers should fix this problem (don't hold your breath), it truly takes a special kind of madness to give props to Bezos for patenting (and enforcing) such trivial patents. Doubly so if the patents turn out to have been invalid to begin with!