Amazon Wants Patent for All-You-Can-Eat Shipping

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Posted by timothy on Thursday August 03, 2006 @09:40AM from the patent-system-still-broken dept.

theodp writes "USPTO documents released Thursday show that Amazon is seeking a patent covering subscription-based shipping, aka Amazon Prime. Among the seven listed inventors is Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who has been singing the praises of Amazon Prime to Wall Street."

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I don't understand... (Score:4, Informative)

by mrxak ( 727974 ) writes: on Thursday August 03, 2006 @09:43AM (#15839132)

How can you patent a payment method? This doesn't make any sense.

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