A few months ago, Amazon.com went after BarnesandNoble.com with their absurd ‘1-Click Shopping’ patent.
Now Apple has legitimized the foolish patent by licensing 1-Click Shopping for the Apple Store.
If you locked a few reasonably intelligent web developers in a room for six weeks to design a user-friendly ecommerce site and they had never heard of 1-Click Shopping (capitalization used sarcastically), they would probably develop it independently.
Boo Amazon.com, boo U.S. Patent Office, and boo Apple.
Comments
james - October 5, 2005 11:19 am
I saw that you have a page that discusses patent-related resources at http://www.actsofvolition.com/archives/2000/september/apple. I wanted to suggest adding www.freepatentsonline.com to the page. This web site has free PDF downloading (instead of having to page through TIFFs like at the US PTO). It is by far the best free patent searching site.