So I fired up my feed reader and started poring over posts from days gone by that I’d missed, and what do I find? Via Tim Bray, IBM suing Amazon over patent infringement. And what might the infringed patents be?
- Presenting Applications in an Interactive Service
- Storing Data in an Interactive Network
- Presenting Advertising in an Interactive Service
- Adjusting Hypertext Links with Weighted User Goals and Activities
- Ordering Items Using an Electronic Catalogue
WTF???
If this isn’t an argument for patent reform, I don’t know what is.
Bryan | 06-Nov-06 at 9:09 pm | Permalink
I can’t help but laugh. Patent reform is long overdue. But to me this lawsuit is more of a deserved “payback” to Amazon for suing everyone over the one-click method.
Emmanuel Okyere | 06-Nov-06 at 9:19 pm | Permalink
Jeff Bezos on 1-Click (cnet)
“We spent thousands of hours to develop our 1-Click process, and the reason we have a patent system in this country is to encourage people to take these kinds of risks and make these kinds of investments for customers”
goes around does come around ;P