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Amazon's one-click shopping patent

Revision as of 06:46, 15 June 2010 by Ciaran (talk | contribs) (External links: * [http://philip.greenspun.com/business/internet-software-patents Internet Software Patents], by Philip Greenspun, author of prior art)

Amazon's "one-click shopping" patent became infamous both because it's trivial and because it's clearly a business method. It has since become an example of how impractical it can be to invalidate the most harmful even when prior-art exists.

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Prior art

In response to Tim O'Reilly's $10,000 bounty for anyone who could find prior-art to invalidate the 1-click patent, contributors found existing patents on: [1]

  • 1-click TV shopping[2]
  • the use of a remote data terminal to place orders[3]
  • single-action ordering during radio broadcasts[4]

In 2006 Cordance Corp., who have an earlier patent that they claim covers the 1-click shopping idea, sued Amazon for patent infringement. The court case will take place in the second half of 2009.[4]

MIT professor Philip Greenspun, who was called as a material witness in Amazon's litigation against Barnes and Noble, developed something similar or identical in 1995.[5]

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