From: Timothy Bates (tbates@karri.bhs.mq.edu.au)
Date: Wed Oct 13 1999 - 04:14:30 MDT
If you think patents are wonderful and needed to help all those poor
inventors get a start, what do you think of this? All patents are absurd,
but this one just shows why.
> Amazon.com Receives Patent for 1-Click Shopping
> from the attack-of-the-dumb-patents dept.
> "It looks like Amazon has patented the storing of credit-card and shipping
> info and then using it to facilate online purchasing via a single click.
Do you reall ythink that the idea of clicking a button to buy something
needs patent protection for someone to invent it?
The only people who need the protection are the companies with 200 and 300
PE ratios running to cover their arses.
buy your books from www.booksamillion.com - they are cheaper anyhow.
tim
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