Amazon Patents E-Commerce Basics... Again
from the keeping-lawyers-employed dept
Patent reform? Who says we need patent reform? After all, we get such lovely new patents as the one pointed out today on Slashdot, that has Amazon patenting a system for e-commerce. It's not clear that the patent examiner ever actually read the patent, because the title of the patent, the abstract of the patent and the patent claims don't actually seem to match up at all. The title says it's about editing information. The abstract says it's about buying an item online (read it, it's scary) and the claims seem to be talking about combining various orders into one. Apparently, you can write just about anything you want in these patents, and as long as it sounds technical enough, it will get approved.
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What if e-commerce becomes more expensive than ret
But playing war games on my new PC with the 256MB PCI Express graphics card, ohhhhhhh..... didn't sleep last night. ;-)
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Amazon Patents E-Commerce Basics... Again
And how do they (amazon, the australian folk, or any of these patent maniacs) get to enforce their "rights"?
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