USPTO Increases Scope Of Amazon's 1-Click Patent

An anonymous reader writes "While the patent office had rejected earlier attempts by Amazon to get a continuation patent on its infamous "1-click" patent, it appears that an impatient USPTO examiner has approved the continuation, apparently because of the failure of BountyQuest to come up with prior art. This continuation adds claims like contacting the recipient of an order via e-mail or a phone call to obtain additional info."

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I just wonder...

[RyanFenton]

...on average, what percentage of a patent examiner's net worth is actually wages, and what percent is some form of bribes and hush money.

It just seems an inherently corruption-friendly system that allows any examiner of proper rank to step in and hand monopolies out to companies at a moment's notice.

Ryan Fenton

Re:I just wonder...

[Anpheus]

No, he wasn't. Because 'obviousness' is the other part of what is necessary for an invention to be patentable. And 1-click sales are obvious to all developers, 1-click sales and 1-click anythings are the reason cookies exist, they are a natural and obvious extension of cookies.

Given up, have you?

[AltGrendel]

So this means that you've quit. You are no longer going to try and change the system (whatever that may mean to you).

Go ahead and mod me flamebait or troll, but my point is that this isn't just about the 1 click patent. There's a company that has the patent on the breast cancer gene. Thats right, you can't try to cure a prevalent form of cancer without paying a frickin' royalty for something that wasn't even invented. At best you could say that they discovered it.

We need to keep trying to stop this insanity.