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Fwd: auch EPO Patent fuer Amazon 1-click

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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:18:22 +0100 From: Jean-Paul Smets <jp@smets.com> To: patents@liberte.aful.org Subject: [Patents] EPO has granted Amazon 1-click Patent

Hi,

This is incredible for me and just shows how far the EPO (European Patent Office) is going in terms of biased and perverse interpretation of the Law.

The EPO granted a patent (EP0902381) on "a method and system for placing an order to purchase an item via the Internet" which is actually the 1-click Amazon patent.

The Munich convention clearly states that : - programmes as such are not patentable - business methods as such are not patentable - mental acts as such are not patentable - etc.

Of course, things are formally written to show that it is an invention which is new, technical solution of a technical problem and with industrial application. But any judge understands that the only innovativity in this patent is purely related to a business method or to a non technical programme. This is really the kind of patent that should be considered as an abuse of the law.

The EPO has now really gone too far. Anyone know how to sue them ?

JPS.

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