Amazon’s one-click shopping patent stuck down by US

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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