Amazon Patents Catching Customers' Mistakes
from the everyone-else-must-leave-errors-alone dept
theodp writes "In a timely follow-up to the Did Amazon Cash In Big On Oprah Viewers' Confusion? item, the USPTO granted Amazon a patent Tuesday for Automatically Identifying Erroneous Orders, which means that trying to stop your customers from placing an incorrect order now constitutes patent infringement." Can someone please explain to me why this deserves a monopoly?Filed Under: customer mistakes, obviousness, patents
Companies: amazon