{"id":1810,"date":"2007-10-17T14:28:57","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T18:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/17\/amazon-patent-foiled-by-lone-gunman\/"},"modified":"2007-10-17T14:28:57","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T18:28:57","slug":"amazon-patent-foiled-by-lone-gunman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/17\/amazon-patent-foiled-by-lone-gunman\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon patent foiled by lone gunman"},"content":{"rendered":"

A heart-warming story — at least for those who have long thought that Amazon’s patent on the “one-click” buying system it uses on its website was stupid and should be struck down: the guy who has almost single-handedly been fighting to have the Amazon patent reviewed by the USPTO won his review, and many of<\/a> the broad claims in the patent have been invalidated. <\/p>\n

You can find out more on his blog<\/a>, which is called IGDMLGD (for reasons that I haven’t been able to determine). As it turns out, the blogger is a chap named Peter Calveley, a New Zealander who has a science degree and a commerce degree and studied to become a patent attorney, although he has never practiced. His interest<\/a> in the Amazon patent was apparently fueled by an unsatisfactory experience buying something on the website. <\/p>\n

In an odd twist, Calveley has also worked as a motion-capture actor<\/a>, wearing a capture suit in order to help create CGI battle scenes in movies such as Lord of the Rings<\/em>. After realizing that none of the motion-capture actors were mentioned in the credits of the movie, Calveley protested this oversight and launched a campaign<\/a> to have their contributions recognized.<\/p>\n

In the case of the patent battle, Calveley managed to single-handedly do what Tim O’Reilly and others failed to do with their BountyQuest effort<\/a>, which was designed to encourage people to search for and submit “prior art” that could invalidate patents such as Amazon’s, which O’Reilly has been criticizing for years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A heart-warming story — at least for those who have long thought that Amazon’s patent on the “one-click” buying system it uses on its website was stupid and should be struck down: the guy who has almost single-handedly been fighting to have the Amazon patent reviewed by the USPTO won his review, and many of … <\/p>\n

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