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Originally Posted by Daithi
I don't think an electronic book reader that receives the electonic books over the phone network is obvious. I'm much more inclined to think that Amazon's "one-click" patent is obvious, but that was granted a patent and existed for about 7 years. When it was over turned it was due to someone digging up some prior art.
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It may not be 'obvious' in the way most people think about it, but consider that at the time the patent was applied for, the Internet and the Web had been in existence for some years; there were already mechanisms in place to delivery content to a particular computer on the Internet securely, combining the existing concept of delivering content electronically with the existing concept of an electronic document reader does not, I believe, create an 'innovation' sufficient to make the combination patentable.