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Was Amazon really just granted a patent on 'secondhand'?

When a patent is granted for a secondhand market it becomes clear there's a major problem with the patent system.

  • Robert Collings

Robert Collings

06 Feb 2013
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Was Amazon really just granted a patent on 'secondhand'?

When a patent is granted for a secondhand market it becomes clear there's a major problem with the patent system. The underlying processes in the design may be patentable but this is one case where semantics is everything.

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