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Yeah. Back when Amazon sued B&N over its 1-click patents, they took a lot of heat. Bezos published a proposal, which included software patents only lasting 3-5 years.
Here is the proposal: techlawjournal.com/inte…
Here is an article we wrote about the 1-click patent saga: blog.withedge.com/p/the…
Yeah. Back when Amazon sued B&N over its 1-click patents, they took a lot of heat. Bezos published a proposal, which included software patents only lasting 3-5 years.
Here is the proposal: http://www.techlawjournal.com/intelpro/20000309bez.htm
Here is an article we wrote about the 1-click patent saga: https://blog.withedge.com/p/the-legacy-of-amazons-1-click-checkout
25 years old, almost.
I submitted this article to Hacker News (got only single-digit upvotes). The tech community LOVES to rant about software patents (usually incorrectly and incoherently, but that's another matter), but they have no interest in actually solving the problem.