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RE: [mv] Amazon (Patent) US5960411: Method and system for placing a purchase order via a communications
I totally concur with this statement, but the reality of the situation is
that there is very little (And I mean very little) you can actually do on
the internet (or the computer sciences in general) without breaching a
patent. The actual aggressive enforcement of these patent regulations is
actually rare. However, the amazon patent is quite scary and has already
been used at least once to try and stifle their direct competitors.
I'm totally opposed to software patents....to bad the patent office isn't.
Nick
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Yes I have two comments:
1). The "experts" who work at the US patent office DO NOT UNDERSTAND the
technology they are issuing patents for; consequently, they are inclined to
be swayed the the authors argument that their widget, system, framework,
whatever, is somehow SIGNIFICANTLY different or unique vs. existing patents
and/or conventions which have fallen into defacto public domain via
pervasive use **like oneline shopping carts**.
2). Lawyers screw everything up. Of course, it is the legal mucky-mucks at
Amazon.com, IBM, etc, who are strokin the egos of their benefactors,
convincing them that their widget, system, framework, etc, which looks and
acts much like everyone elses, is somehow UNIQUE just because it is THIERS.
There was a time when the patent office made sense (the days of Edison,
Ford,etc). I'm afraid that now (with the occasional, rare exception), it
has just become the venue for yet another three-ring circus of litigation
and grand-standing.
- Ed L.
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