Anderson's Business Law and the Legal Environment 20th Edition by David Twomey,Marianne Jennings

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On October 21, 1999, Amazon.com (Amazon) brought suit against Barnesandnoble.com (BN) alleging infringement of its patent for its one-click order system. Amazon's patent is directed to a method and system for "single-action" ordering of items in a client/server environment such as the Internet. The patent describes a method and system in which a consumer can complete a purchase order for an item via an electronic network using only a "single action," such as the click of a computer mouse button on the client computer system. Amazon developed the patent to cope with what it considered to be frustrations presented by what is known as the "shopping cart model" purchase system for electronic commerce. BN alleges that there is nothing unique about the system that warrants a patent and that its ordering system and that of other dot.com retailers is simply a convenience, not a patentable idea. What laws will the courts apply to this intellectual property dispute for Internet merchants? Are the laws the same for parents on devices and products? [ Amazon.com, Inc. v Barnesandnoble.com, 239 F3d 1343 (Fed Cir)]