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USPTO Rejects Amazon's One-Click Patent

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-at-least-there's-some-sanity dept.

igdmlgd writes "A while ago I filed a reexamination request for the Amazon.com one-click patent and recently checked out the USPTO online file wrapper -it seems they have rejected all the claims I requested they look at and more!" And it only took many many years to remove what would have been obvious to the most incompetent web developer.

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  1. The most incompetent web developer? by sokoban · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who's the most incompetent web developer? The people at myspace?

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  2. Whine enuf and you win by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 0, Troll

    > And it only took many many years to remove what would have been obvious to the most incompetent web developer.

    And this is a truly embarassing, sad development.

    The fact remains that it was not obvious to sell a thing without a confirmation popup. Oh, now it is. Because of efforts like that.

    But back then, no programmer would ever sell a thing with one click for fear the user accidently clicked the button. That this fear is, perhaps, unfounded, and in any case is a slightly different business model is the innovation that was not obvious .

    I don't understand why it's so hard to "get" this.

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  3. Re:well yes and errr, no by immcintosh · · Score: 0, Troll
    I think parent's got the long and the short of it. Even grandparent Amazon startup employee admitted in a roundabout way that obvious is precisely what it is.

    It is whether or not business method patents that fundamentally simply map a practice in the non-online world ("put this on my account") to the online world ("1 click") should be permitted.
    So he's essentially saying it's something that people already did all the time everywhere anyway, but the fact that it was online in Amazon's case made it less obvious? I don't think so.