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Article:
  O'Reilly Awards $10,000 1-Click Bounty to Three "Runners Up"
Subject:   Patent must be non-obvious
Date:   2001-03-15 07:31:11
From:   dbaboiu
If MiniVend can be easily configured for one-click
shopping, then one-click does not qualify as
non-obvious. The fact that MiniVend was never used
for one-click is irrelevant, as long as the
technology is there. It is the technology that
gets patented, not the use.