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 ...

Amazon.com has won what could have been an embarrassing and expensive dispute over whether its 1-Click checkout system was patented by another company. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal ...

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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...