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Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Calls For Governments To End Patent Wars

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-that-amazon-ever-patented-anything dept.

concealment writes with news that Amazon's Jeff Bezos has called for new legislation from governments to end abuse of the patent system. He said, 'Patents are supposed to encourage innovation and we're starting to be in a world where they might start to stifle innovation. Governments may need to look at the patent system and see if those laws need to be modified because I don't think some of these battles are healthy for society.' His comments are from an interview with the UK's Metro. Bezos was also optimistic about the future of the private space industry: "If private companies can start to generate profits from this kind of activity then you’ll start to see the flywheel spin more rapidly and we’ll make more progress, because I really do think we want to live in a civilization where millions of people are living and working in space."

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  1. What about Amazon's One click patent? by aristotle-dude · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Amazon has been licensing their http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click to various companies like Apple. I guess Bezos just wants to use other people's patents for free but expects everyone to pay to use their patents.

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  2. Re:Obviously by lewscroo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess Amazon is just a One Click Pony.

  3. Re:Yes, and no. by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny

    I may agree with Bezos, but I still feel a little like it's Satan complaining about forest fires in Hell.

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  4. How did One Click get approved? The rage by GoodNewsJimDotCom · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't one click purchasing obvious? What I don't get though is: Why didn't they patent two click, three click, and so on? I think they could effectively crush any competition from the Internet if they patented up to a thousand click buying. No one is gonna wanna click a thousand times to buy anything.

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    1. Re:How did One Click get approved? The rage by lordofthechia · · Score: 5, Funny

      This could get exciting! Everyone would go to zero-click buying.

      All storefronts would be rendered in flash and as soon as the page loads items would start crawling their way towards your shopping cart!

      Your "shopping" experience would consist of *preventing* items from getting into your cart.

      Just realized, this would work really well as a tower defense game.

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  5. I had a sight where you can donate to support him by a2wflc · · Score: 5, Funny

    But I used a one-click payment button so I had to take it down.