{"id":40,"date":"2004-04-05T19:08:49","date_gmt":"2004-04-05T23:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cesarbreadev\/2004\/04\/05\/amazon-patents-cookies\/"},"modified":"2004-04-05T19:08:49","modified_gmt":"2004-04-05T23:08:49","slug":"amazon-patents-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cesarbreadev\/2004\/04\/05\/amazon-patents-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Patents Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a31'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" color=\"black\" size=\"1\">Big news, under the radar screen. &nbsp;<\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.marketingvox.com\/archives\/2004\/04\/01\/amazon_patents_cookies_no_joke\/index.php?rss1\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" color=\"black\" size=\"1\">Amazon has been granted a patent on cookies<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" color=\"black\" size=\"1\">. &nbsp;Given the fundamental role of cookies in Web-based applications, I&#8217;d have expected to hear more about this. &nbsp;I asked my friend <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.ealaw.com\/\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" color=\"black\" size=\"1\">Sam Mawn-Mahlau<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" color=\"black\" size=\"1\">, a partner at Edwards &amp; Angell in Boston, what he thought. &nbsp;Sam thought the patent could be interesting, but that Amazon has been mostly defensive in its use of patents in the past.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" color=\"black\" size=\"1\">Amazon&#8217;s in the black right now, but I guess if profits go south this could make a pretty powerful asset for the SCO-inclined. &nbsp;So, shop at Amazon this holiday season or face the music!<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big news, under the radar screen. &nbsp;Amazon has been granted a patent on cookies. &nbsp;Given the fundamental role of cookies in Web-based applications, I&#8217;d have expected to hear more about this. &nbsp;I asked my friend Sam Mawn-Mahlau, a partner at Edwards &amp; Angell in Boston, what he thought. &nbsp;Sam thought the patent could be interesting, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[589],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cesarbreastories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cesarbreadev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cesarbreadev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cesarbreadev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cesarbreadev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cesarbreadev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cesarbreadev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cesarbreadev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cesarbreadev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cesarbreadev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}