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."

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Re:The Company Hangs on 1-Click? Balderdash!

[Televiper2000]

It absolutely doesn't. According to this open letter http://www.oreilly.com/news/amazon_patents.html it's more of a stepping stone towards a larger crusade of reforming software and business model patents. I agree with some of the points he is making in the open letter. I for one would love to see a patent law that eliminates trolling. Patents should be limited to those making the real investment to bring an invention to market.