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Facebook and Yahoo! are at loggerheads over internet patents.
But Amazon is by no means the leader in Internet patents.
Critics of these new Internet patents, which by definition have a software component, contend that software creation is far more incremental than other kinds of invention.
The most fundamental question that critics of Internet patents pose is whether business models like the Amazon one-click process should be patented at all.
"It's interesting because it's one of the first Internet patents to come to at least one conclusory stage of the litigation process," he says.
"Perhaps on the Internet, patents should last one 'Internet lifetime,' which is about two years," says Greg E. Blonder, a longtime researcher and vice president at Bell Labs and now "entrepreneur in residence" at AT&T Ventures.
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Murphy had developed a way to send faxes over the Internet — patent pending.
The boom in software-related inventions, Internet business patents, and human genome and biotechnology patents has frequently caught the agency off guard and led to controversy, court cases and even patent cancellations.
All U.S. laws and policies are required to conform to terms set in these pacts on food safety, Wall Street regulation, access to the Internet, medicine patents and prices, climate and energy policy, health care, immigration and more.
Scores of other Internet-related patents quietly tumble out of the patent office each week.
In December, Mr. Walker left Priceline.com's board to put his energies into running Walker Digital, which owns several Internet-related patents.
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