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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin

Can't be copyrighted, only patented. Even the most common-sense ideas can and are patented by leeche in obscurity until someone implements it and they begin to collect taxes.

Care to name a single software patent granted in EU?

Originally Posted by murraypaul

And Amazon can patent 1-click shopping.
(And then license it to Apple, but sue B&N when they do something similiar.)

In Europe, a patent application on the 1-Click ordering was filed but never granted.

"Gift ordering" patent was granted, then revoked, since "it fell short of meeting the criteria of providing an “inventive step”, as defined in Article 56 of the European Patent Convention (EPC)@ source.

Originally Posted by Andrew H.

But of course it's not what the court said.

I didn't check iFanboi interpretation of reality for that fact, I confess. Community design No. 000181607-0001 is quite clear what it is about, though.