Amazon gets no patent on the way in which internet users with a single click of a button, anything can be purchased in Europe, as has the European Patent Office decided. In the patent described technology is too general.
The 1-click patent from Amazon made in the past for a lot of fuss. The online grootgrutter put it in against competitor Barnes & Noble and Amazon sold lots of licenses on the use of the technology to a single click to purchase. Only last year was the patent in the US granted, but in strong hollow form: 21 of the 26 claims on the technology were rejected.
At the European Patent Office caught Amazon completely bone, it now appears. The office upheld the patent in January of this year, but the decision was recently published. The technology relies for a large part on the use of cookies, including to the previously entered payment and personal data to access. According to Amazon, there was this talk of a safe, secure and quick payment method and a new invention. With this latest was the European patent office did not agree.
“Given the indexeringsmogelijkheid of cookies, every informed person know that sensitive data where traditionally, a login would be required, could be accessed with cookies,” according to the EPO, which allows the method to be generally considered to to patent. The reduction of the number of steps to make an online purchase to be able to do and the appropriate combination between security and simplicity are also not new inventions, furthermore, in the decision.