In 2006 it was re-examined on the basis that there was prior work. THIS IS STILL INSANE AND IDIOTIC!!!
ONE CLICK CHECKOUT IS AN OBVIOUS PROCESS. ONLY A HALF RETARDED PATENT OFFICE EMPLOYEE WHO HAS NEVER USED THE INTERNETS WOULD EVEN CONSIDER GRANTING SUCH A BALLSY CLAIM TO AN OBVIOUS ADVANCE.
from wikipedia:
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued US 5960411 for this technique to Amazon.com in September 1999.
On May 12, 2006, the USPTO ordered a reexamination[1] of the "One-Click" patent, based on a request filed by Peter Calveley.[2] Calveley cited as prior art an earlier e-commerce patent and the Digicash electronic cash system.
On October 9, 2007, the USPTO issued an office action in the reexamination which confirmed the patentability of claims 6 to 10 of the patent.[3] The patent examiner, however, rejected claims 1 to 5 and 11 to 26. In November 2007, Amazon responded by amending the broadest claims (1 and 11) to restrict them to a shopping cart model of commerce. They have also submitted several hundred references for the examiner to consider.[4] In March 2010, the revised patent was confirmed.[5][6][7]
In Europe, a patent application on the 1-Click ordering was filed with the European Patent Office, but was never granted.[8]
One problem with ceteris paribus based 'folk wisdom' is that it's an oxymoron. If common folks had wisdom then we wouldn't have needed a Constitutional Republic.
The riff raff cannot be expected to understand nuance and ironic humor.
Many look up the word troll on a site most likely authored by one and/or find some simplistic and literalist definition to then enable themselves to troll the internet in a desperate cry for attention.
I think they realize that 'they are all in it together' and that one hand scratches anothers back.
Perhaps someone doing the same work at the RIAA comes across something which would interest a personal friend and professional contact over at the MPIA. It's also probably a good excuse to write off a business lunch.
I for one love getting out of the office as much as possible. Here at NBCU we can check out a golf cart and nosh over at Universal Studio Walk next door.
Re: Assertion
Good Point.
Use it or lose it, is a well established in legal case law.
Re: Re: If the dog had bitten a small child then...
Often times if a dog is off the leash then it wanders outside the 'area of owner responsibility' for waste disposal.
Then the owner will claim that he/she did not know that the dog had defecated, and therefore does not have to clean up the mess.
Techdirt Commission on Higher First Post Standards
The title should be self-explanatory.
If the dog had bitten a small child then...
...we would be asking why this rule-breaker wasn't arrested.
Let's all please try to consider the other side of the equation here.
Re: Re: 1999 1-Click Checkout Patent Granted To Amazon
The European patent office refused to even consider such an absurd patent application.
LOL! WHAT... A... DUMB.ASS.
It wasn't on every desktop because it took elderly corporate stooges that long to figure it out...
1999 1-Click Checkout Patent Granted To Amazon
In 2006 it was re-examined on the basis that there was prior work. THIS IS STILL INSANE AND IDIOTIC!!!
ONE CLICK CHECKOUT IS AN OBVIOUS PROCESS. ONLY A HALF RETARDED PATENT OFFICE EMPLOYEE WHO HAS NEVER USED THE INTERNETS WOULD EVEN CONSIDER GRANTING SUCH A BALLSY CLAIM TO AN OBVIOUS ADVANCE.
from wikipedia:
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued US 5960411 for this technique to Amazon.com in September 1999.
On May 12, 2006, the USPTO ordered a reexamination[1] of the "One-Click" patent, based on a request filed by Peter Calveley.[2] Calveley cited as prior art an earlier e-commerce patent and the Digicash electronic cash system.
On October 9, 2007, the USPTO issued an office action in the reexamination which confirmed the patentability of claims 6 to 10 of the patent.[3] The patent examiner, however, rejected claims 1 to 5 and 11 to 26. In November 2007, Amazon responded by amending the broadest claims (1 and 11) to restrict them to a shopping cart model of commerce. They have also submitted several hundred references for the examiner to consider.[4] In March 2010, the revised patent was confirmed.[5][6][7]
In Europe, a patent application on the 1-Click ordering was filed with the European Patent Office, but was never granted.[8]
Anything and Everything but the Obvious.
Why is it so difficult to believe that the people working there are mentally unfit and/or on the take?
I love my grandfather, but would I trust him making decisions about Internet policy? patent applications?
HELL NO!
Re: Re: Re: Re:
you're welcome.
I'm glad some people still appreciate art when they see it.
Re: @techdirt
Is she a hooker?
Much like pissing in the wind...
...this decision will have just as much of an effect.
Today's most successful businesses are all, in one form or another, patent trolls.
I knew it was 'all over' when back in the 90's Amazon won a patent for 'one click checkout'
How can a system of justice possibly render competent decisions when they are being presided over by rotting corpses?
Re: Re: Re: Grow up!
Actually I meant to say 'why should Internet trolls be any less respected' than real world trolls like Sarah...
Sarah is making millions, while this guy is being hunted down like he is some sort of child predator...
Re: Re:
so now trolling is like murder?
The Internet should be sorted by Intelligence.
I've been saying this since the beginning...but my ideas were too dangerous.
Re: Re: I wonder
One problem with ceteris paribus based 'folk wisdom' is that it's an oxymoron. If common folks had wisdom then we wouldn't have needed a Constitutional Republic.
The riff raff cannot be expected to understand nuance and ironic humor.
Many look up the word troll on a site most likely authored by one and/or find some simplistic and literalist definition to then enable themselves to troll the internet in a desperate cry for attention.
Re: Grow up!
Exactly, why are internet trolls any less respectful than real world trolls like Sarah Palin?
What about all the good things trolls do?
As prominent Internet Troll myself, I find this article offensive.
Have we learned nothing from the Wizard of Oz?
If Dorothy had melted Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, then she might never have gotten home.
The BBC, like the Wicked Witch of the West is just dispatching a gang of flying monkeys and hoping one of them will hurl feces at the correct target.
Why even bother explaining to these cyber-hysterics, that, like assholes, in the real world, they come in a variety of off color flavors.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sigh... This type of schlock news is tiresome.
If giant white letters spelling out H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D doesn't prove that Hollywood is a city in California, then I don't know what will.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt says...
If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
Re: Re: Sigh... This type of schlock news is tiresome.
I think they realize that 'they are all in it together' and that one hand scratches anothers back.
Perhaps someone doing the same work at the RIAA comes across something which would interest a personal friend and professional contact over at the MPIA. It's also probably a good excuse to write off a business lunch.
I for one love getting out of the office as much as possible. Here at NBCU we can check out a golf cart and nosh over at Universal Studio Walk next door.