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USPTO Reaffirms 1-Click Claims 'Old And Obvious'
theodp writes "After USPTO Examiner Mark A. Fadok rejected Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' 1-Click Patent claims as 'old and obvious,' Amazon canceled and refiled its 1-Click claims in a continuation application as it requested an Oral Appeal, a move that smacked of a good old-fashioned stalling tactic. But the move may have backfired, as Fadok has just completed his review of the continuation app and concluded that all of the refiled 1-Click claims should be rejected, providing explanations of why the Board of Patent Appeals was wrong to reverse his earlier decision after listening to Amazon's lawyers in September. In October, USPTO Examiner Matthew C. Graham rejected most of the 1-Click claims as part of the reexam requested by LOTR actor Peter Calveley, a decision that attorneys for Amazon are currently trying to work around with some creative wordsmithing. Can't see how all of this means 'less work for the overworked Patent and Trademark Office.'"
not for the first time
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Where's the article?
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i am the one click master!
total cost of legal fees for amazon thus far
why is it that most of this discussion has to do with myminicity and all the bullshit spammer links? Isn't there a way to stop this insanity?
Funny + 3 would be more approp. Those of the jewish presuasation riddle and mock those who believe in the holy kid. The passion of christ was consider a Black Comedy in israel. Something to do with mad jihad bombers is the reason.