Some of the patents were first filed in the 1980s, including one titled "Ordering Items Using an Electronic Catalog."
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Patents of software concepts are really a perversion of law. There is no way it would be legal if people truly knew how it keeps the use of common technology out of the market.
Reference: http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/patents.html http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/ev50/index.html
There is some irony here though, Amazon is guilty of using the law to keep people from using simple technology too.
Patents of software concepts
Patents of software concepts are really a perversion of law. There is no way it would be legal if people truly knew how it keeps the use of common technology out of the market.
Reference:
http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/patents.html
http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/ev50/index.html
There is some irony here though, Amazon is guilty of using the law to keep people from using simple technology too.