#One click away license#

Barnes & Noble had developed a way to design around the patent by requiring shoppers to make a second click to confirm their purchase. After reviewing the evidence, a judge issued a preliminary injunction ordering Barnes & Noble to stop offering Express Lane until the case was settled.

#One click away license#

Apple paid $1 million to license the patent.ДЄmazon filed a patent infringement lawsuit in October 1999 in response to Barnes & Noble's offering a 1-Click ordering option called 'Express Lane'. Apple subsequently added 1-Click ordering to the iTunes Store and iPhoto. ДЄ in 2000 licensed 1-Click ordering to Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) for use on its online store. The Court remanded the application to the Canadian patent office for a reexamination. In Canada, the Federal Court of Canada held that the One click patent could not be rejected as a pure business method since it had a physical effect. ДЄ related gift-ordering patent was granted in 2003, but revoked in 2007 following an opposition. In Europe, EP application 1134680 on 1-Click ordering was filed with the European Patent Office (EPO) but was rejected by the EPO in 2007 due to obviousness the decision was upheld in 2011. In March 2010, the reexamined and amended patent was allowed. They have also submitted several hundred references for the examiner to consider. In November 2007, Amazon responded by amending the broadest claims (1 and 11) to restrict them to a shopping cart model of commerce. The patent examiner, however, rejected claims 1 to 5 and 11 to 26. On October 9, 2007, the USPTO issued an office action in the reexamination which confirmed the patentability of claims 6 to 10 of the patent. Calveley cited as prior art an earlier e-commerce patent and the Digicash electronic cash system. On May 12, 2006, the USPTO ordered a reexamination of the 'One-Click' patent, based on a request filed by Peter Calveley. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued US 5960411 for this technique to in September 1999.