Robert Scoble

One of the worst patents ever just got upheld in court

Forget patenting an invention. These days, companies patent conceptual categories for future inventions. During the first dot-com boom, Amazon famously patented the concept of buying things online with one click. More recently, companies have patented concepts such as scanning documents to an e-mail account, clearing checks electronically and sending e-mail over a wireless network.

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