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1-Click Smacked Down Again, While Reexam Languishes

Posted by timothy on from the waiting-game-is-rigged dept.

theodp writes "Pressed on Amazon's 1-Click patent, then-USPTO Chief Q. Todd Dickinson got testy: "I make this challenge all the time. If you're aware of prior art out there that invalidates a patent that is existing, file a re-examination. We'll be happy to take a look at it." Really? It's been 3+ years since unemployed actor Peter Calveley submitted prior art that triggered a USPTO reexamination of the 1-Click patent. Still no 'final answer' from the USPTO. To put things in perspective, 1-Click inventor Jeff Bezos once proposed a three-year lifespan for patents (later retracted), let alone patent reexams. In the meantime, other patent examiners have repeatedly smacked down 1-Click — the latest (non-final) rejection was issued on Feb. 10th with Sandra Bullock's help."

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  1. 1 click epricks idongs vdicks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    lick my hairy taint amazon.com! good luck with that human spaceflight thing too, let us know how that works out. fuck them and all the fucking JEWS