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To: Robert Rose who wrote (81678)	10/22/1999 3:54:00 PM
From: Eric Wells	Read Replies (3) of 164684

Robert - I'm surprised that Amazon was ever able to secure a patent on the "one-click" technology. I can understand a trademark for the term "one-click" - but the one-click technological process itself is not revolutionary. Amazon may have been the first to apply it to e-commerce, but even so, Amazon does not deserve a patent for it (in my opinion). Hopefully the courts will agree - because I view awarding of patents for basic technological processes as actually having a negative impact on technological advancement. Do you realize that in the early 90's that Lotus sued Microsoft because Microsoft had used similar menu names in Excel that were used in Lotus 1-2-3. Lotus argued that they had intellectual rights to the actual menu names and the layout of the menus. The case went on for years - Microsoft eventually won. Through it's action today, all Amazon is doing is using a legal tactic to fight the competition - and helping to boost the income of several lawyers. I can hardly say that I admire Bezos for such a move. -Eric

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