Amazon's "one-click" patent reconsidered http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060519-6872.html "Intriguing news comes from the weird world of patents today with the announcement that Amazon's "one-click" payment patent will be reexamined by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). What makes this reexamination so interesting is that it was not filed by one of Amazon's business competitors or by a non-profit like the EFF (which had the patent on a shortlist of "problem patents" a few years back), but from a New Zealand actor best known for doing motion capture work on the Lord of the Rings films." Symantec attempts to halt Vista with lawsuit http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060519-6871.html "The road to Vista has been anything but a smooth one for Microsoft. Most of the difficulties Microsoft has faced so far have been technical in nature. Symantec is attempting to throw up a legal barrier in front of the software giant, accusing it in court of misusing intellectual property and violating a license agreement. Symantec is seeking financial damages, an injunction against the sale and shipment of both Vista and Longhorn server, and a recall of Windows versions currently on the market that allegedly infringe against Symantec's IP." -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. -Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US president, architect and author (1743-1826) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Serge Marelli, Luxembourg ----------------------------------------------------------------------