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Oct 31 2008

US Court shuns Business Method Patents

Saad Ali Abbasi 

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A U.S. court reached its decision that business methods, such as Amazon.com Inc’s one-click to buy goods on the Internet, cannot be patented. “The court stated that the patent application in question – a method for reducing the risk of sudden changes in energy cots – was not a machine and did not result in a transformation, both standards set by the U.S. Supreme Court for patentability.” As covered by Reuters. This shakes the legal status of Amazon’s (AMZN) 1-click patent.

[via Silicon Alley Insider]

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