[Sigia-l] Software Patents and IA?

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Jonathan Baker-Bates:

> Almost the canonical example of this now is Amazon's "one-click ordering"
> patent for e-commerce websites.

The *only* major company that I'm aware of that has licensed "one-click" is
Apple. They did it before they unveiled iTMS. (I also think Barnes was the
only company sued by Amazon, even though I could swear I've seen other
ecommerce site that use the concept. :-)
 
> Do you need to be wary of coming up with an idea that might be found to
> infringe a patent?

Your average IA would be very ill equipped to discover and decide what's
actually infringing. Infringement is not (only) a matter of conceptual
overlap but also of implementation, which is where things get a bit
difficult to decipher.

I haven't read the EU patent decision yet. But if the EU case against MSFT
is any indication, I don't expect anything of consequence. :-)

Ziya
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