Businesses use that shit. They don't have time and often don't care about the little details.
Businesses are the customers you want.
E-commerce will evolve next month as Amazon loses the 1-Click patent
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Re: E-commerce will evolve next month as Amazon loses the 1-Click patent
#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
Being easy to replicate often suggests that it is, in fact, _obvious_. Which is supposed to invalidate the patent.
Lots of things become easy to replicate after they've been done once, despite being non-obvious before. The "no obvious inventions" part of patent law is supposed to prevent people from patenting things that are already broadly used (or small variations on things that are already broadly used). The cliched example being that you can't patent the wheel. Edit: I see that Animats has covered this much better elsewhere i…
> Lots of things become easy to replicate after they've been done once, despite being non-obvious before
Maybe, but this is not why we have patents. Patents justification is to help innovations to spread, by making them public and, in exchange, granting a monopoly for some time as would have been the case should the innovation been kept secret.
Patents are not, in theory, a bonus for whoever implement something first.
In practice though, this seems to be largely the case, at least in software, that patents are like those mine field maps during the gold rushes, partitioning the hills and delimiting every tiny area belonging to one miner, probably to police what would otherwise be a violent, perpetual quarrel.
Re: E-commerce will evolve next month as Amazon loses the 1-Click patent
#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lots of things become easy to replicate after they've been done once, despite being non-obvious before. The "no obvious inventions" part of patent law is supposed to prevent people from patenting things that are already broadly used (or small variations on things that are already broadly used). The cliched example being that you can't patent the wheel. Edit: I see that Animats has covered this much better elsewhere i…
> Lots of things become easy to replicate after they've been done once, despite being non-obvious before Maybe, but this is not why we have patents. Patents justification is to help innovations to spread, by making them public and, in exchange, granting a monopoly for some time as would have been the case should the innovation been kept secret. Patents are not, in theory, a bonus for whoever implement something first…
> Maybe, but this is not why we have patents.
Yeah, and? I wasn't saying so.
Re: E-commerce will evolve next month as Amazon loses the 1-Click patent
#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's actually a really depressing thought. Now we'll all have to start being even more vigilant to make sure that the "checkout" buttons are "start the multi-step checkout process" buttons, and not "gimme this item with whatever payment information is on file" buttons. On the plus side, most sites I'd be really worried about probably don't have my checkout information anyway.
Really? Are there really so many sites that you don't trust, yet have they have your credit card info? I can't think of a single site that fits that bill for me. If one did nefariously charge me for something an make it a hassle to cancel, a chargeback would be an easy solution; it's not likely I want to maintain a business relationship with them anyway.
Did you read my second line?
Re: E-commerce will evolve next month as Amazon loses the 1-Click patent
#235Huh? 1-Click patent? Does this mean I can literally patent a design choice?
Re: E-commerce will evolve next month as Amazon loses the 1-Click patent
#236Re: E-commerce will evolve next month as Amazon loses the 1-Click patent
#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
"if there's any fraud the merchant eats all of it!" - not 100% true- see "fraud Liability Shift topics" Your card Issuer gets it if it's an EMV (ie chip was dipped) card-present transaction, merchant gets the liability if it was online or over the phone-Exception being if 3DS is used. Fraud is ultimately payed for either by your bank or by the merchant.
If the chip is present, then the merchant storing the card info is moot, no?
no because they can be breached leading to other transactions appearing on your card.