One-Click patent is still old and obvious
Posted on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 in Politics • Tagged with Amazon, One-Click
Guess "USPTO":http://uspto.gov/ has _some_ common sense as they have just "reaffirmed that the 1-Click Claim is 'Old And Obvious'":http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/25/1933206. They should just abandon software patents altogether, as they are "bad":http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m …
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