Peter Calveley (via Boing Boing) reported last week that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has finally struck down Amazon’s overly broad patent for one-click online shopping.
In an earlier post, Calveley described how Amazon had submitted 32 Wikipedia articles as supporting evidence for its patent claim. The discussion becomes hilarious as Calveley mocks the fungible nature of Wikiality, noting that the USPTO had removed Wikipedia from its list of acceptable references in 2006.
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