Amazon's 1-Click patent picked apart by US Patent Office

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*Source: Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...-office.html)*
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The US Patent Office has dealt a blow to Amazon over its controversial "1-Click" shopping cart patent. The patent (http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...=PN/5,960,411), which Amazon filed for in 1997, was used in Amazon's case against Barnes & Noble in 1999, wherein Amazon accused the competing bookstore of patent infringement. Now, the USPTO has rejected 21 of the 26 claims in the patent, leaving only five as "patentable."

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