RE: [mv] Amazon (Patent) US5960411: Method and system for placinga purchase order via a communications

["Jeffrey D. Carnahan" <jcarnahan@networq.com>]

You can get more information about reaction to the Amazon patent and news
about the patent from:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/12/02/0915226&mode=nested
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/10/22/0959240.shtml
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/10/12/1826242.shtml

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Warmest Regards...
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Jeff Carnahan                                    CTO Networq, Inc.
http://www.networq.com/                      jcarnahan@networq.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
[mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Hans-Joachim
Leidinger
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 11:39 AM
To: minivend-users@minivend.com
Subject: Re: [mv] Amazon (Patent) US5960411: Method and system for
placinga purchase order via a communications


******    message to minivend-users from Hans-Joachim Leidinger
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Ed LaFrance wrote:
> >what is happen with this US-Patent??
> >Why are able to use the one-click-search, one-click-order etc.!
> >Please see this URL
> >
> >http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?&pn=US05960411__
> >and
> >http://linuxtoday.com/stories/13652.html
> >
> >Any comments?
[DEL]
>
> 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.

Hi Ed,

thank you for your comments! Do you know more information about this
patent and comments or reactions from other people/magazin?

Hmmm...it seems me, Mike Heins was the first person with his
one-click-yxz-Methode (or he has get this methodes since 1997 or with
minivend version 3.06) earlier than amazom.com. Am i right?

Regards,

Joachim
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