Amazon’s 1-Click Patent Is About To Expire. What’s The Big Deal?
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- Publish Date:
- September 6, 2017
- Author(s):
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- Dewitt, Julia ,
- Green, David
- Source:
- National Public Radio (NPR) - Morning Edition
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Summary
Our Planet Money team looks back on the early days of the Internet when buying with one click seemed novel enough to warrant a patent, and how this gave Amazon an advantage.
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Next week, a controversial patent from the early days of the Internet expires. It is known as the 1-click patent, and it belongs to Amazon. Julia DeWitt from our Planet Money podcast explains why this is such a big deal.
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DEWITT: Ludicrous now, but in 1997, Amazon was just three years old. Google didn’t even exist yet. Doing pretty much anything on this new World Wide Web seemed innovative. Mark Lemley is a patent lawyer and professor at Stanford. He, like many patent lawyers, knows this case well.
MARK LEMLEY: This was part of a class of patent applications filed in the ’90s and 2000s that really were directed at kind of a business idea – a concept.
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