Amazon Patents Recognizing Top Reviewers

theodp writes "Seems there really isn't anything you can't patent these days. It took seven-and-a-half years, but the USPTO awarded patent reformer Amazon.com a patent Tuesday for its invention of Creating an Incentive to Author Useful Item Reviews, aka Top Reviewers, a program that rewards those who have written as many as 17,308 free reviews with a free virtual 'badge'."

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Oct 3rd, 2008 @ 9:46am

by Marshall Kirkpatrick
I'm never clear on the specificity of patents, but this one sure looks to me to be specific only to systems that use Amazon's formula of k(2(A+B+C)-(D+E))

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Oct 3rd, 2008 @ 10:33am

Oct 3rd, 2008 @ 10:28am

by Jonathan Lang
Hasn't Ebay been doing that for quite a while longer than Amazon?

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