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USPTO Examiner Rejected 1-Click Claims As "Obvious"

Posted by kdawson on from the well-duh dept.

theodp writes "Faced with a duly unimpressed USPTO examiner who rejected its new 1-Click patent claims as 'obvious' and 'old and well known,' Amazon has taken the unusual step of requesting an Oral Appeal to plead its case. And in what might be interpreted by some as an old-fashioned stalling tactic, the e-tailer has also canceled and refiled its 1-Click claims in a continuation application. As it touted the novelty of 1-Click to Congress last spring, Amazon kept the examiner's rejection under its hat, insisting that 'still no [1-Click] prior art has surfaced.' The Judiciary Committee hearing this testimony included Rick Boucher (VA) and Howard Berman (CA), both recipients of campaign contributions from a PAC funded by 1-Click inventor Jeff Bezos, other Amazon execs, and their families."

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  1. He rejected it ONCE with ONE signature by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Presumably he made only ONE rejection with ONE signature.
    Presumably he made only ONE rejection with ONE signature.

    Go ahead mod me redundant for saying something twice.
    Go ahead mod me redundant for saying something twice.

    If only there was a way I could explain this without all this repetition, I need an invention.
    If only there was a way I could explain this without all this repetition, I need an invention.

    I have it! One time writing. I'll write things only once, because writing them more than once is a waste.
    It seems obvious now, but that's because of hindsight bias. Can you show me anywhere anyone wrote or patented writing things once because twice is needless duplication? No!