{"id":357044,"date":"2010-02-24T00:49:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T05:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100223\/0249208265.shtml"},"modified":"2010-02-24T00:49:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T05:49:39","slug":"how-hard-is-it-to-realize-that-one-click-buying-doesnt-deserve-a-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/357044","title":{"rendered":"How Hard Is It To Realize That One-Click Buying Doesn’t Deserve A Patent?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For many, many, many years, Amazon’s clearly ridiculous one-click patent has been exhibit number one in a patent system gone mad. And yet… the USPTO and Amazon cling to it. After some earlier challenges at the beginning of the last decade went nowhere, in 2005, an actor\/blogger dug up some prior art<\/a> that resulted in the USPTO reconsidering, and finally, the USPTO realized that maybe a patent on single-click buying didn’t make sense<\/a>. But, for some reason, Amazon and Jeff Bezos (who a decade ago was a founder<\/a> of a project to bust bogus patents) have aggressively fought<\/a> to keep the patent alive. And so we’ve now entered the fifth year of the review process<\/a>, which seems to involve some rather annoyed USPTO patent examiners, who are fed up with what appears to be Amazon simply dumping busywork on the examiners to avoid a final rejection of the patent. So, not only is the one-click patent a great example of how patents that never should have been granted still get granted, but it’s also demonstrating the ridiculous lengths to which one must go to invalidate a bad patent.<\/p>\n

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