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"one-click shopping" patent doesn't invent:

- * the internet- * the browser- * the button- * the web page- * the store- * the store on the internet- * merchandise- * e-Commerce- * logging on to a system- * the button- * the "WHEN keystroke/button DO action" methods- * the "having an account" at a store- * the "having an account at a store on the internet"- * the keeping of credit card information for later purchases- * the keeping of customer shipping information by a retailer- * the "put it on my tab" concept between buyer and seller- * the concept of *NOT* asking "are you sure?"

OK, so we can agree that Amazon.com didn't invent any of the above. Any yet,

apparently own:

- * (paraphrased) setting up an online shopping environment where once a user has

logged in and entered his credit card information and shipping information and

begins browsing the site, a product displayed for sale may, on the page where it

being required by the customer.

*'''THAT* ''' is a *'''VALID* ''' and PATENTABLE "invention"? I think not. But

there it is on the books and upheld in a court case, because the patent office

let it through and the trier of fact and the jurists were bulldozed over by

Does the guy who invented the fence, have to pay the guy who invented sheep

grazing, if he uses his fence to "focus" his own sheeps ' effort by

fencing his pasture?

What of the guy who puts a fence around his cow?

What of the guy who puts a fence around a cow, but on ~~baren~~ barren land, and then

brings in bales of hay?

entropy cost" on you and I and everybody else even remotely involved.

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So where was the "vs c=Copyrights" part? Its that inspiration in the

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