And Then There Was One: Only One One-Click Patent
from the amazon-keeps-the-ring dept
Last year a company sued Amazon.com, claiming that Amazon's infamous one-click patent actually infringed on their own electronic transaction patent. A court has tossed out the suit, leaving Amazon.com as the one true holder of the one-click patent.
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Am I the only one..
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[See who's a butthead and place my order]
*click*
Jeff Bezos is a butthead!
[Place my order]
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well...
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Amazon Sues Barnes & Noble Over One-Click Patent (1999)
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learn correct terminology
talking about patents and not knowing much about them...
First, a patent cannot infringe on somebody else's patent: only product can infringe on a patent, so the patent holder can sue for patent infringement.
There is a procedure called "interference", when two different patent applications claims the same subject matter. But this is all handled by the PTO: they are supposed to determine which patent is valid.
Second, as much as I hate Amazon.com and their patents myself, believe me, 1-click patent is actually a *good* patent when you compare it to a typical patent issued to e.g. MicroShit...
Yes, it is a *good* patent, despite all the hysteria. After all, Tim O'Reily issued an apology to Jeff Bezos for calling a boycott on amazon.com when the prior art search bounty failed to produce anything of importance...
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