Intellectual Property
Mar. 12, 2010
Amazon's 'One-Click' Patent OK'd
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has confirmed that an amended version of Amazon Inc.'s "one-click" method of online shopping is patentable.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
For years, Amazon Inc.'s patent on the "one-click" method of online shopping was held up as the poster child of a patent system run amok.
Amazon sued competing bookseller Barnes & Noble in 1999 for patent infringement, and settled the case several years later on undisclosed terms. But the patent was a public relations headache, with some critics of software patents ...
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