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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."
I -hate- one click anyway. For Amazon Video, it either geos to the wrong TiVo or to a desktop I no longer have and for real products it uses the wrong card for the money I have that week. I use Amazon a lot, but I hate and will never use one click.
Errr... They refused to attend the hearing in person that they themselves requested! Now they are claiming undue hardhip because they are in a different timezone? What if they were on vacation in Turkey? Would they have asked the office to open at midnight and video conference them in because any other time it would be an "undue hardship" for the timezone the lawyers reside in?
I've shopped at Amazon for as many years as I can remember them being around, and I have never even used the 1-click checkout. I don't know about you, but when I'm placing an order online, I like to double check everything throughout the checkout process to make sure all the information is correct every time, rather than click once and assume it is.