Comments on: Amazon patent thinks pink

Gifts such as dolls should be wrapped in pastel paper. Whether obvious or not, the company now holds the patent on the idea.

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Another stupid patent -

In the article itself the technique is called "Data Mining" and it's not a new technology at all. To use it in this fashion is exactly the kind of use that the idea of data mining was based on and so the particular use Amazon has put it to falls into the "obvious" category. Things that are obvious are not supposed to be patentable.

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Many customers will not take the time to provide such birth dates, and ...

Many customers aren't "deprived" of anything as they don't think it's any of Amazon's business and don't want their stupid reminders(Advertisements).

[starrpoint]

Don't want reminders

I find Amazons "reminders" annoying enough as it is, without this kind of nonsense. It just gives them an excuse to send us spam we don't want. I hate software that tried to make my decisions for me!

If I wanted the reminders, I would fill out their stupid forms. It is not the lack of time that leaves these forms unfilled, it is lack of interest.

[Bill Dautrive]

More ammo against patents

Yet another stupid patent.

[Bob_Barker]

so if i...

So if I assume my niece would like the barbie I bought for her birthday wrapped in pink tissue am I violating amazon's "patent"? Who are the people over there thinking this crap up? Maybe I should patent the idea of creating an e-commerce website to reduce my overhead costs and provide a convienient place to shop from anywhere for my customers. OMG GENIUS! Maybe I should patent breathing in to provide my blood with oxygen and then exhaling carbon dioxide to aide the trees of the world in photsynthesis! Pay me royalties for breathing Amazon. I think a nickel a breath is fair. Ok?

[hadaso]

So it was Amazon that invented STATISTICS!!!

So it was Amazon that invented STATISTICS!!!

I wonder why our statistics professor didn't tell us this interesting historical anecdote!

[Andrew J Glina]

Silly

Do the people in the Patent office even read the submissions? I hope Amazon did this just to prevent being sued. If they try to sue others over this it could get messy and even more silly.

[System Tyrant]

How-To file a pointless patent.

First, think of something everybody does, but doesn't realize.

Second, slip patent in while Microsoft, IBM, etc. are filling their 3000+ patents.

Third, hire OJ's lawyers to defend patent.

Fourth, call anybody who is willing to support a community for free a communist. (Sorry I just had to throw that one in for Sir Billy Gates)

Finally, waist countless court hours and cause a few small businesses to go bankrupt trying to defend themselves only to then watch the patent overturned because the supreme court finally decides it's stoopud.

[Andrew J Glina]

Hey!

You don't happen to work for Amazon? You seem to understand the Patent system well.

[Tank252ca]

There is something seriously wrong...

with the US patent system where software patents are concerned. How can the patent office continue to issue patents for methods that so many professionals in the industry consider obvious? The scary part is that Canada and the European Union are headed in the same direction <sigh>.