Jacken’s Blog

Apple have agreed to pay royaltys to E-Data for a broad patent about e-commerce. This is the second time Apple has folded under pressure from stupid patents. They paid Amazon for the so called “One-Click” patent that’s up there on the top 50 of stupid patents that’s been approved. I can see Apples reasoning. It’s easy to just pay up, problem solved. But sooner or later I think that this kind of tactic is going to come back and bite them in the ass. Talk about stifling progress, making broad and generic patents, that’s actually being approved and then just sit back and wait to sue companies for money.

The problem with software/internet patents is something that is easily solved, without changing the patent system. Just throw out stupid claims. Like getting a patent for the ability on the internet to just click once to buy something. Hello, Mr Obvious? For god sake! What’s next? A way to improve your happiness by administering an alcoholic substance through an orifice in the body to get alcohol evenly soaked in the brain, thus increasing happiness? Feel free to give examples of stupid patents, maybe we could go into business together? We’ll just sit back, waiting for the money while using my alcohol patent no K33424X rev 3, soaking the brain to the limit.