Good news.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33016.html
<quote>
US practices that allow the patenting of business methods have been dropped, the Dow Jones
Newsletter reports.
That means ideas such as the "one-click" online shopping method patented in the US by Amazon.com
are disallowed under the proposed European patent regulations.
</quote>
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