Bezos Buries Patent Office in Paper

theodp writes "On June 2nd, almost two-and-half years after the USPTO initiated a reexamination of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' 1-Click Patent, Amazon dumped another load of documents on the USPTO Examiner assigned to the case, asking for consideration of the 185 or so listed references and 'favorable action.' Peter Calveley, the LOTR actor whose do-it-yourself legal effort prompted the reexam, notes that he was cc'ed on 20 kg of documents that Amazon sent earlier to the USPTO as it tried to stave off last October's nonfinal rejection of all but 5 of Amazon's 26 1-Click patent claims. So much for Bezos' 2000 pledge of 'less work for the overworked Patent and Trademark Office.'"

Comments

20 kg?

[Otter]

Presumably theodp is one of those people who always waits for someone else to refill the copy machine -- 20 kg of paper isn't exactly "burying the Patent Office", particularly when a reexamination on a key patent for your business is at stake.

This is the same guy who submits these anti-Amazon stories every other week, right? At least this time the links seem vaguely related to his grievance, although I have no idea what that Flickr picture is supposed to show.

Re:20 kg?

[hcdejong]

Doing the math, it's about 4000 sheets of A4. That's a whole lot of paper to wade through, especially if it's in legalese rather than English.

Re:Fortunately, the 2-day shipping was free

[dreamchaser]

I stopped buying from Amazon after the 1 click patent fiasco. They haven't gotten a penny from me since, nor will they in the future. I'm willing to spend a few bucks more elsewhere. It's called voting with my wallet.

I won't even grace their website with hits.

Re:Fortunately, the 2-day shipping was free

[startling]

I won't even grace their website with hits.
Why not use their bandwidth to listen to music samples or read book extracts, and then buy them elsewhere?