The online book-and-whatever-else store was soundly mocked for asserting its "1-click" patent. Now it is being sued by someone else claiming a prior patent on single-button ordering. SAN FRANCISCO — ...

Get your pointer fingers ready: Amazon’s one-click buying process, patented by the Seattle-based company back in the heady days of 1999, expired on Tuesday. And retailers, which until now have either ...

PALO ALTO, California (Reuters) -- Apple Computer Inc. Monday became the first company to license Amazon.com Inc.'s 1-Click technology, a coveted and controversial process that vastly simplifies ...

I'm patenting forums. :bigdumbgrin: Seriously though, I haven't read the amended version of the patent but how can the USPTO justify holding up a software version of something that is normal and ...

Next week, a controversial patent from the early days of the Internet expires. It is known as the 1-click patent, and it belongs to Amazon. Julia DeWitt from our Planet Money podcast explains why this ...