I really hope B&N don't just back off from using 1-click shopping or modify their site enough so that it no longer 'infringes'. We need a few companies with a bit of financial clout behind them to contest these obvious patents just to (hopefully!) show people that although the patent office might be handing out patents for 'breathing, using the lungs as a aperatus to sustain life', the courts might take a somewhat dim view.
It would be nice if the courts became so flooded with these ridiculous claims that they started penalising people who obtain then attempt to uphold patents which are far too obvious.
Amazon might think twice about taking legal action if there was a good chance of it losing a couple of million dollars.
Isn't it ironic that only a few stories ago Hemos was saying about the global warming distributed computing effort "global warming just gives me the creeps anyway and I'd like to know if my house will be underwater" ! (Unless he knew about at the time!)
Last I heard Trevor Baylis - the inventor of the clockwork radio which can operate without batteries for 30mins after just 20secs of winding up ( http://www.durhamradio.ca/baygenb.htm) - was looking at using his wind up generator to power laptops for use in those places where electricity is scarce.
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I really hope B&N don't just back off from using 1-click shopping or modify their site enough so that it no longer 'infringes'. We need a few companies with a bit of financial clout behind them to contest these obvious patents just to (hopefully!) show people that although the patent office might be handing out patents for 'breathing, using the lungs as a aperatus to sustain life', the courts might take a somewhat dim view.
It would be nice if the courts became so flooded with these ridiculous claims that they started penalising people who obtain then attempt to uphold patents which are far too obvious.
Amazon might think twice about taking legal action if there was a good chance of it losing a couple of million dollars.
Isn't it ironic that only a few stories ago Hemos was saying about the global warming distributed computing effort "global warming just gives me the creeps anyway and I'd like to know if my house will be underwater" ! (Unless he knew about at the time!)
Last I heard Trevor Baylis - the inventor of the clockwork radio which can operate without batteries for 30mins after just 20secs of winding up ( http://www.durhamradio.ca/baygenb.htm) - was looking at using his wind up generator to power laptops for use in those places where electricity is scarce.