USPTO Imposes 'Undue Hardship' On 1-Click Lawyers

theodp writes "Looks like Amazon's high-priced Silicon Valley attorneys will have to endure the 'undue hardship' of awakening early next Thursday morning to defend CEO Jeff Bezos' 1-Click patent in a Video Hearing before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. The attorneys' plea for a 1 p.m. ET start time drew a be-there-at-9-or-be-square response from the USPTO. The 1-Click patent has fallen into disfavor lately with USPTO Examiners, who no longer have the same boss who once sent a 1-Click love letter to the WSJ arguing that the merits of Amazon's patent were proven by a contest run by a Jeff Bezos-financed company, an argument that was later rejected by Congress."

Comments

Re:Timezones

[geekboy642]

There needs to be a "+1, Hell yeah!" option for mods.

Re:Timezones

[Jarjarthejedi]

"For those of us older than 2^5, such deviations from one's normal schedule can be pretty disruptive."

Wow...just wow...2^5? I'm left wondering if you intentionally planned that out, doing the math on purpose, or just naturally think of your age in multiples of 2...either one leaves me simultaneously frightened and wanting to learn more...

And yeah, it's unfair to ask someone used to getting up at a certain time to get up 3 hours earlier when there's no good reason (no matter the age). But calling it an undue hardship is kinda pushing it, I wouldn't exactly call having to get up early a hardship, though it is undue. More like unnecessary annoyance...hardship makes it sound like the patent agency is asking them to go without food for a month or something.

FINALLY!

[raehl]

I can finally cash in on my patent for defending a patent reexamination... via teleconference.