Amazon Patents Customized 404 Pages
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| Among the patents awarded to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Tuesday was one for his
| invention of Error Processing Methods for Providing Responsive Content to a
| User When a Page Load Error Occurs, which covers displaying alternate web
| pages in response to HTTP 404 page-not-found errors.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/30/1321241
Slashdot also talked about an AIDS drug-related patent being revoked. Is the
world maybe regaining sanity (and humaity)?
Interview with André and Benjamin from the FFII at the 24c3
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| Jan and me had the chance to talk to André and Benjamin Henrion from the
| Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) at the 24c3 Chaos
| Communication Congress. Besides some general talk about the activities of the
| FFII in Brussels we get a few insights into the current campaign against the
| Microsoft standard ooxml.
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http://www.perspektive89.com/2008/interview_jan_and_benjamin_ffii_24c3
Microsoft is still using those brainwashed journalist whom it gave a free trip
to throw FUD at IBM and praise OOXML. Revolting media control. Scandalous!
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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