Inventor of revoked payment patent says UK system is a joke
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| A patent for the handling of gratuities in card payments has been revoked by
| the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) for being a business method
| implemented by a computer program. The decision follows recently-revised
| guidance on patentability.
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| One of the inventors told OUT-LAW today that his company spent more than
| £100,000 trying to enforce and defend the patent before passing the rights to
| another company, which he described as a "patent troll". He believes that
| company will appeal this month's ruling.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/23/uk_patent_system_a_joke/
Here comes the Amazon patent system abuser:
Amazon Patents Net Present Value-Based Delivery Dates
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| theodp writes "Just in time for holiday shopping, the USPTO has awarded
| Amazon a patent for Generating Current Order Fulfillment Plans Based on
| Expected Future Orders, which explains how to use modeled net present value
| to adjust an order's delivery date favorably or unfavorably based upon
| expectations that the customer will have high-profit orders in the future..."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20071120/015521.shtml
Discrimination/tiering is now an Amazon Invention(R)(R)(R).
Related:
Amazon Sneaks One-Click Past the Patent System
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| By changing the word 'a' to 'the' and adding the phrase 'purchasable through
| a shopping cart model,' lawyers for Amazon.com have apparently managed to
| reinstate two of CEO Jeff Bezos' 1-Click Patent claims that were rejected a
| month earlier.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/22/1756237&from=rss
Patent Reformers O'Reilly, Bezos Mum on 1-Click
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| Equally untalkative was Bezos, who deflected questions on the damage done by
| Calveley's DIY legal effort, telling a Wall Street analyst to 'refer to our
| public filings' (although nothing on the subject appears in the 8-K and 10-Q
| filings).
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/27/1144222&from=rss
USPTO Increases Scope Of Amazon's 1-Click Patent
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| It apparently found its way into the hands of a sympathetic (and impatient)
| USPTO Examiner who had earlier defended his friends for approving 1-Click
| in the first place and referred 1-Click naysayers to a letter to the WSJ
| penned by the ex-Commissioner for Patents.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070605/104036.shtml
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