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USPTO is the problem
I don't buy this whole Amazon.com-built-on-the-backs-of-giants argument. Let's lay the burden where it belongs: a bad judicial decision wasn't corrected by an act of congress which could have clarified the statute on which business method patents were deemed to be legal and appropriate. Let's also blame the patent office, which hopes to recruit competent people for a fraction of reasonable salary. And then overworks them. Amazon.com is working the system. We'd be bitching about somebody else if it weren't them. Also, nobody apparently reads the friggin' patent for One Click either. Everyone continues to claim that Amazon.com patented the notion of single clicking to place an order. No! They patented a bunch of very narrow sequences of activities which they claimed, and the USPTO agreed, were unique, innovative, and important. Bah. They're not. But it's not their fault for trying. Nor Jeff B's for funding a group that will help overturn bad business patents, including his own. Let's get real.
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