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Amazon patent foiled by lone gunman

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

A heart-warming story — at least for those who have long thought that Amazon’s patent on the “one-click” buying system it uses on its website was stupid and should be struck down: the guy who has almost single-handedly been fighting to have the Amazo ... Continue reading »

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  • Leigh

    1 year ago

    "Fueled by an unsatisfactory experience buying something on the website"

    Ha! For any clients that think one customer can't make a difference in their lives. I wonder if he got the same ditsy customer service agent that I did when i started my "give leigh her 10$ back Amazon.com" campaign years ago?
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  • Mathew

    1 year ago

    So why didn't you get to work and crack their patent, Leigh? :-)
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  • Bob Warfield

    1 year ago

    Fabulous story! I had no sooner finished ranting about Google's frivolous search widget patent and using Amazon's 1-click as an example than I heard about this on ycombinator:

    http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/goog...

    I think patents should be at least partially a function of the cost of developing the idea and less a function of who happened to slam an application through on an obvious idea soonest.
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  • Leigh

    1 year ago

    Because I was focused on my $10 Mathew....duh….
    (which i am happy to say after email number 20, they decided to make an exception and give back to me)
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