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Re:USPTO Rejects Amazon's One-Click Patent by rms on Wednesday October 17, 2007 @06:33PM (#69328)
Do they get to keep all the money they collected as royalties?
Re:USPTO Rejects Amazon's One-Click Patent by nickb on Wednesday October 17, 2007 @08:05PM (#69378)
Unless the contract says otherwise, yep. But I doubt they'll be able to keep on charging current licensees (like Apple for example)...
Re:USPTO Rejects Amazon's One-Click Patent by neilc on Wednesday October 17, 2007 @11:11PM (#69485)
I'm surprised that companies like Apple, with sizeable legal departments, didn't bother to do the research necessary to get the patent thrown out. Sure, I can see that they might pay royalties in the short term for the sake of expediency, but I wonder why they didn't also investigate getting the patent re-examined themselves...
Re:USPTO Rejects Amazon's One-Click Patent by dcurtis on Thursday October 18, 2007 @05:08AM (#69605)
I have a feeling that it would be a very bad idea for Apple to piss off Amazon in that way.