{"id":413264,"date":"2010-03-10T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100310\/1011108507.shtml"},"modified":"2010-03-10T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T23:30:00","slug":"us-patent-office-decides-that-one-click-really-is-patentable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/413264","title":{"rendered":"US Patent Office Decides That One Click Really Is Patentable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and gentlemen, we now have confirmation that the USPTO is a joke.  After years of back and forth, it has decided, once again, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techflash.com\/seattle\/2010\/03\/amazons_1-click_patent_confirmed_following_re-exam.html\" >Amazon&#8217;s one-click patent is perfectly valid<\/a>.  This, despite tons of prior art, and basic common sense.  We were just wondering what was taking so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20100223\/0249208265.shtml\">long<\/a> for the USPTO to reject the patent.  But, of course, it seemed like the USPTO was willing to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20071204\/002127.shtml\">go out of its way<\/a> to help keep this patent around.  Of course, as some are pointing out, the end result of this patent surviving is that it may be used as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patentlyo.com\/patent\/2010\/03\/amazon-one-click-patent-slides-through-reexamination.html\" >example number one for patent reform<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100310\/1011108507.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100310\/1011108507.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100310\/1011108507&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=c40eb251ac32caf113c76f9fe08d43d0&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=c40eb251ac32caf113c76f9fe08d43d0&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=FGvn6U44imE:GHPDNKlExfQ:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=FGvn6U44imE:GHPDNKlExfQ:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=FGvn6U44imE:GHPDNKlExfQ:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/FGvn6U44imE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and gentlemen, we now have confirmation that the USPTO is a joke. After years of back and forth, it has decided, once again, that Amazon&#8217;s one-click patent is perfectly valid. This, despite tons of prior art, and basic common sense. We were just wondering what was taking so long for the USPTO to reject [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}