Today, September 12, Amazon's 1-Click "business method" patent finally expires. This means that anyone will soon be able to duplicate the functionality on any e-commerce site and across the internet. The patent was issued back in 1997, and was subject to controversy and litigation at the time. This is basically how Amazon's 1-Click works: When [...]
When Google goes and updates something on their search engine, it can be either good or bad, especially when it comes to an algorithm. Generally, a change that is made by Google can generally be pretty frustrating when it suddenly changes something, and there was no clue it was going to happen. These changes can [...]
It's been announced by Google that the Google Patent Search algorithm, interfaces and features has been upgraded in order to help the growing number of patent applications, as well as the growing number of litigation around patents. According to Google's Allen Lo, the Deputy General Counsel for Patents, and Ian Wetherbee, the Software Engineer for Google Patents, “Bad [...]