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Re:IBM patent trolling patent application by powertower on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @02:17PM (#2759943)
I think the prior art would rule this one null and void.
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Re:IBM patent trolling patent application by stcredzero on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @03:48PM (#2760354)
And yet, what does the data say about US patents and prior art?

It says: We developers are #^¢&ed!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click

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Re:IBM patent trolling patent application by powertower on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @06:33PM (#2760949)
The 1-click was granted in 1999, which I can't remember anyone doing for shopping carts back then.

1999 was still the hay days of the internet and merchants weren’t really making the checkout/buy process easy.

The 1-click is a good example of maybe an obvious method being patented rather than ignoring prior art.

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