{"id":1468,"date":"2017-09-12T21:33:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T21:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/12\/amazons-1-click-technology-patent-expires\/"},"modified":"2017-09-12T21:33:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T21:33:52","slug":"amazons-1-click-technology-patent-expires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law888.com\/?p=1468","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s 1-Click Technology Patent Expires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Patents can have a significant effect on a business and its development. At the height of the dotcom bubble, US patent 5,960,411 was granted to a small book retailer that changed the way consumers made online purchases, making an online transaction faster. The premise, 1-click ordering, would only be allowed when using that bookstore&#8217;s website: Amazon.com.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Patents can apply to more than just technological inventions. \u00a0In the case of 1-click ordering, the patent was granted as a new, novel, and non-obvious business method, though this became controversial. \u00a0In an interview with NPR, former commissioner for patents Robert Stoll noted that the &#8220;novelty of the Internet made what looks in retrospect like kind of small changes to business methods to seem newly patentable.&#8221;[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]If you&#8217;ve ever used 1-click ordering on any website that&#8217;s not Amazon.com, there&#8217;s a good chance that website is paying Amazon to license that business practice. \u00a0With the patent&#8217;s expiration, observers expect many big companies to create their own 1-click ordering systems in short order. \u00a0Some tech giants are also discussing the possibility of an Internet-wide system.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Listen to the full NPR interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/09\/06\/548819270\/amazon-s-1-click-patent-is-about-to-expire-what-s-the-big-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The Law Offices of Scott Warmuth provides a full range of intellectual property legal services, including patents. \u00a0Our <a href=\"https:\/\/law888.com\/intellectual-property-attorney\/\">intellectual property attorney<\/a>s can help businesses, inventors, and entrepreneurs secure the competitive edge needed to thrive in today&#8217;s market. \u00a0Call <strong>888-517-9888<\/strong> for a free consultation![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Patents can have a significant effect on a business and its development. At the height of the dotcom bubble, US patent 5,960,411 was granted to a small book retailer that changed the way consumers made online purchases, making an online transaction faster. The premise, 1-click ordering, would only be allowed when using that bookstore&#8217;s website: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intellectual-property"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}