The long-running battle between Amazon.com and a New Zealand movie technician over Amazon's 1-Click patent not only turned out poorly for Amazon, but a twist at the end mentioned why a prominent figure in the tech industry may have decided to back off from fighting this battle. Peter Calveley's role as fight coordinator for the astonishing Lord of the Rings movie trilogy is sufficient to make him a geek hero. His work at taking down, single-handedly, what has been long considered a dubious patent at best, probably pushed him from hero to the Olympic pantheon of, heh, geek gods.
Calveley disputed Amazon's 1-Click patent, and the US Patent Office has now Calveley's requests for review, but more:I had only requested the USPTO look at claims 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21 and 22 but the Office Action rejects claims 11-26 and claims 1-5 as well! Amazon has the opportunity to respond to the Patent Office's rejection, but third party requests for reexamination, like the one I filed, result in having the subject patent either modified or completely revoked about 2/3 of the time.An interesting coda to this comes from
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