RE: [mv] Amazon (Patent) US5960411: Method and system for placinga purchase order via a communications

[jojo@buchonline.net]

On 16 Dec, Birgitt Funk wrote:
> ******    message to minivend-users from Birgitt Funk <birgitt@booktraders.com>     ******
>> [snip]
>> 
>> >But I really would like to know when the first one-click checkout
>> >code was written.
>> 
>>          Hmm, maybe CompuServe, or even further back...  My bank had a 
>> service where I could press a button on the phone to order new checks.  Is 
>> that a click?  Oh well, all I know for sure is that Microsoft invented GUI 
>> and Al Gore invented the Internet.  :-)
> 
> :-) 
> 
> I meant open source code, first shopping cart one-click checkout
> released under GPL license. I ask, can you patent your code if GPL code
> doing the same thing is already released into the public domain ?
> 
> Birgitt Funk

This is my questions too! I am in a process to create a
one-click-search and on-click-order for the external Sites without
minivend server. I believe, minivend has get this ability first and it
is under GPL license. I believe, amazon.com is not allowed to patent
this feature. 

Joachim

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