October 13, 2000
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Weren’t we just discussing this topic? Amazon is getting a taste of its own patent-pending medicine via a spoonful of legal cod liver oil from the interactive television hardware slingers over at OpenTV.
“Although the company has its eye on the [interactive television] market, executives claim that its patent applies to electronic commerce of any kind. “We have claims on one-click shopping in any client-server environment,” says OpenTV Chief Intellectual Property Officer Craig Opperman.”
My wish is that all of these lawyer-driven paperstorms actually end up allowing more companies to use these innovations, rather then limiting them through the use of business model based patents. These guys should be trying harder to make their services more usable to consumers across the board, instead of digging trenches between each other filled with seething pools of litigation. What a tremendous waste of energy.
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