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

Fortunately, the 2-day shipping was free

[Anonymous Coward]

Because the Patent Office subscribed to Amazon Prime.

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?

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.

Pledge?

[devnullkac]

I saw no pledge of less work for the Patent Office in that open letter. I saw instead a prediction of less work, should his recommendations for patent reform be realized.

The One Click patent is certainly a lightning rod for patent reform, but we should be more sure of what we're accusing our enemies of.