#41unit 2intellectual property rights
Business methods and processes
Patenting ways of doing business online.
Amazon one-click
Amazon's patent on one-click purchasing forced competitors to use multi-step checkouts or license the technology. Barnes & Noble invented a two-click method to avoid infringement, showing both the protection and the workaround.
Amazon one-click, Priceline Name Your Own Price, and Netflix's early rental queue method are business method patents.