> Phoenu Pa Wrote > ==================== >>So is the term subjective? I guess if you get enough lawyers you can >>call a pig a horse.
> That's exactally what happened. Others built their own versions of "One > Click" shopping, but Amazon sued and won! So, now, if I understand > correctly, nobody can have "One Click" shopping without licensing the > "concept" from Amazon. Others pitch in here if this is not the case. I'd been under the impression that their lawsuit only succeeded ( or largely anyway ) because someone had already paid their licensing fee, which then gave them the ability to say "see, if other people can have it for free, then we're going to get sued by our customers, because we sold them a legitimate product" ... which is rediculous because it's not a legitimate product -- it's not a product at all... not to mention the fact that it's not Amazon's fault if someone is stupid and decides to pay them money for something that they could do themselves without spending any money and all this crap is the kind of thing that should be thrown out of court these days for being a "frivolous lawsuit" in the first place, but then as long as the lawyers have money that never happens... Calling something "technology" is another story all-together and you get into semantics -- which is a great and wonderful thing, but not really apropriate for this list per se... Really you can call anything "technology" assuming that someone has designed and built it and that it functions in a reasonably consistent manner. Whether a technology is patentable or copyrightable (or both) is another issue alltogether... One-click shopping isn't actually a technology tho, because there's no underlying technical spec for it, it's just saying that the user only has to use one button or mouse click to get from point a to point b, but the underlying mechanics of that may vary wildly. The underlying mechanic is a technology, "one-click" is not. here's a great article about patent office stupidity. http://www.around.com/patent.html Isaac Dealey Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer www.turnkey.to 954-776-0046 ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
