US Patent Office Confirms Systemic Problem

The patent office just ended a reexamination of Amazon’s one click patent up holding it’s claim. This completely eliminates the possibility that it was a mistake or that the people reviewing the patent did not understand the subject area. Instead, this four year review confirms that the USPO is comfortable that this patent complies with US patent law and that amazon has the right to prevent others from using a one click shopping cart until 2017. This means that the problem is not the implementation of the system, but the system itself. Unfortunately, this means that the only fix is to throw out the baby and the bathwater.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is confirming Amazon.com’s controversial 1-Click patent following a re-examination that lasted more than four years.

link: Amazon.com’s 1-Click patent confirmed following re-exam