The USPTO has recently issued a ""notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate" for the Amazon.com one-click patent, which was subject to a reexamination request that I filed in lig… Read More

Yet another InnoCentive solver award falls into my tentacles Read More

Today I picked up another 13 kg of documents filed by Amazon.com on 28 March in the request for reexamination of their one-click patent that I filed. Added to the 7 kg they filed recently, a… Read More

Seems I have just received an award for a $USD10,000 challenge to come up with new ideas for ways to charge lights.Not sure what else I am allowed to say about it at the moment but it was a… Read More

On 29 November, Amazon have amended the claims as agreed to in their interview. In doing so (in particular, in their amendment to claim 11), they give up their absolute monopoly on the idea… Read More

In May 2006, I requested a reexamination of the Amazon.com "one-click patent" based on some prior art I found.The broadest claim (claim 11) of the patent seems to cover the very concept of… Read More

In a recent office action, the USPTO has rejected the claims of the Amazon.com one-click patent following the re-examination request that I filed on 16 February 2006. My review resulted in t… Read More

Stumbled across a competition the other day to make a YouTube video for a company called FXAWorld-they do peer to peer foreign exchange. 6 minutes later I had written a script! We shot it o… Read More

Looks like everyone is on about the recent Supreme Court Decision of KSR v Teleflex. so I though I should put in my 2 cents worth too. The decision referred to Anderson’s-Black Rock, I… Read More

Amazon.com (well, the lawyers they have hired-a jolly unsporting move if you ask me!) have recently filed 167 documents weighing about 7kg in the reexamination of the “One Click Paten… Read More

Best CAPTCHA all day Read More

Or is it assonance? Anyway, Amazon has appointed Silicon Valley attorneys Fenwick & West to represent it in the "One-Click Patent" reexamination. I'm sure they'll have oodles of fun Read More

The “271 patent blog” aims at “Providing insight and analysis on patent law, patent portfolio management and patent litigation in the fields of electronics, software and c… Read More

I've found quite a few examples of "one-click ordering" in computer games, and had a few emails from others about them too. An interesting question in this context is whether you are orderin… Read More

On Friday the USPTO ordered a reexamination of all the clams of the controversial Amazon.com "One-Click" patent based on the request I filed using some prior art I found.To view information… Read More

Here are some software/computer/information-related patent claims I have stumbled across, with some thoughts on how they have changed over the years, and a sample claim of my own (not filed)… Read More

I think the famous Free Software song by Richard Stallman needs a remix , with a special guest artist (who has yet to respond to my challenge to a dancing competition) Read More

I received some correspondence from the USPTO regarding my request for reexamination of the Amazon One-Click patent.It states that the filing date of the request is 16 February 2006 (the day… Read More

Many thanks to everyone who helped out with the funding and promoting the blog.Please don't send any more money (unless you want to contribute to my personal consumption ;-) ).But please con… Read More

Nick Szabo has read and commented on the reexamination request.Alexis Grandemange has created a page about gathering additional prior art to attack other claims and other Amazon patents in t… Read More

$1373.64 so far! only $1121.16 to go!67 *anonymous* contributors.4 named:Patrick Davishttp://davideasterly.com/blogKristian Raue http://www.jedox.com/http://temporaer.net/nova*/index.php/200… Read More

OK time for some UTU for the annoyingly slow book delivery.Today I mailed a request I have written for ex parte reexamination of Amazon’s “One-Click” patent (US Patent 5,96… Read More

This morning they said that my reexamination request had arrived, and that they wanted the rest of the reexamination fee. I had been a little worried that Amazon would be able to file their… Read More

I kind of think the whole “Short film” thing is a bit like practising the guitar-you just have to keep churning them out to sort of keep your hand in.OK here is a rough cut of so… Read More

Got out of hospital a couple of days ago. Hooray!And the book finally arrived (very late). But I had already ordered another one! Still annoyed with the whole Amazon marketplace thing Read More