USPTO Rejects Amazon's One-Click Patent

Re:USPTO Rejects Amazon's One-Click Patent by DocSavage on Wednesday October 17, 2007 @01:06PM (#69106)

Here's the patent: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazonpatent.html

It's great that they got rid of most of the claims, but it looks like independent claims 6 and 9 still broadly cover a client/server approach to one-click shopping carts. Can any IP lawyers in the house comment on the ramifications of losing the method claims?

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Re:USPTO Rejects Amazon's One-Click Patent by falsestprophet on Wednesday October 17, 2007 @08:38PM (#69401)

How does this pass the non-obvious test? I'm not that smart (or even a true expert in the field) and even I can immediately tell how to implement the system.

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Re:USPTO Rejects Amazon's One-Click Patent by rms on Wednesday October 17, 2007 @08:53PM (#69406)

There are lots of patents for things that are obvious to someone that is an expert in the field. Biotech is just as bad. I hope the recent patent reform makes something of a difference.

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