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In 1998, Amazon.com filed a patent application for a "Method and System For Placing A Purchase Order Via A Communication Network". [2] This invention allowed customers shopping online to make purchases with one-click buying, which circumvents the process of entering address and billing information in the traditional shopping cart mode of online shopping.
In September 1997, Amazon developed its "One-Click" process in which a customer could complete a purchase with a single mouse click, while the website processed a credit card number that had already been stored in the customer's profile. [4] Amazon received a patent for its One-Click technology in September 1999. [1]
Amazon.com offering the option to either add an item to the user's cart, or purchase it immediately using 1-Click. 1-Click, also called one-click or one-click buying, is the technique of allowing customers to make purchases with the payment information needed to complete the purchase having been entered by the user previously. [1]
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US 5960411 (Main article: 1-Click) Amazon.com sued Barnes & Noble for violating its "One click buy" but the case was ultimately settled. [5] Amazon has so far failed to obtain a similar patent in Europe. [6] EP application 1134680 1997-09-12: GB application 2388937 (Main article: Aerotel v Telco and Macrossan's Application)
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The company has been criticized for its alleged use of patents as a competitive hindrance; its "1-Click patent" [2] may be the best-known example. Amazon's use of the 1-click patent against competitor Barnes & Noble's website led the Free Software Foundation to announce a boycott of Amazon in December 1999, [3] which ended in September 2002. [4]