European Patent Office

T 1244/07 (1-Click/AMAZON) of 27.01.2011

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:2011:T124407.20110127
Date of decision
27 January 2011
Case number
T 1244/07
Petition for review of
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Application number
01113935.9
Language of proceedings
English
Distribution
Distributed to board chairmen and members (B)
OJ versions
No OJ links found
Other decisions for this case
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Abstracts for this decision
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Application title
Method and system for placing a purchase order via a communications network
Applicant name
Amazon.Com, Inc.
Opponent name
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Board
3.5.01
Headnote
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Keywords
Inventive step - use of cookie to look up customer data (no - obvious from D1 and D3)
Inventive step - enabling single-action ordering (no - shift of responsibility for security is form of human behaviour not contributing to inventive step)
Long felt want (no - immediate application of newly available programming feature)
Inventive step - omitting confirmation steps in an ordering process (no - aspect of business method)
Inventive step - combining orders sent within a certain time (no - administrative rule)
Inventive step - displaying indication that single-action order can be cancelled within a predetermined time period (no - presentation of administrative information)
Catchword
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Cited cases
G 0003/08
Citing cases
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ORDER

For these reasons it is decided that:

The appeal is dismissed.