The patent office gets one right!
by Ruth Suehle
Peter Calveley requested a re-examination of Amazon.com’s one-click patent, often held up as an example of the type of ridiculous things that are getting patents and, by extension, the mess the US patent office has become.
The patent office got it right. The one-click patent has been rejected.
I had only requested the USPTO look at claims 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21 and 22 but the Office Action rejects claims 11-26 and claims 1-5 as well!
Amazon has the opportunity to respond to the Patent Office’s rejection, but third party requests for reexamination, like the one I filed, result in having the subject patent either modified or completely revoked about 2/3 of the time.
October 18th, 2007 at 5:49 am
The emtirer patent regime has to be overhauled. Software patents are an oxymoron. Software should not be patentable amterial. Copyrights do more than an adequate job of protecting software. Patents kill innovation.