dogdogscrew Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 am i dreaming, product list with attribute, qty box. buyer stay in one page, just enter the desire qty then checkout, get rid of needless click click click. did someone saw osc live shops like this. knowing that 1click purchase patented by www.amazon.com, is that means no chance to do the same? Thank you!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velveeta Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 am i dreaming, product list with attribute, qty box. buyer stay in one page, just enter the desire qty then checkout, get rid of needless click click click. did someone saw osc live shops like this. knowing that 1click purchase patented by www.amazon.com, is that means no chance to do the same? Thank you!! As far as I know, and I just did some quick reading around on the internet, Amazon does still hold the patent on the one-click checkout... It was issued in 1999 I believe, and is good for something like 17 years... Apparently there was another minor legal battle last year about a possible prior patent that would have superceded Amazon's, but it looks like it was smacked down by the legal system... I personally think it's assinine that Amazon could patent something as universal as combining a cookie with their checkout process to streamline it, but the courts say otherwise... There may be a way you could sort of skirt that process, depending on how the one-click checkout is defined... If I'm getting this correctly, their process bypasses a cart altogether, and each individual product has a one-click checkout button that you click, and bam, the product is yours... This is also the process that Barnes & Noble was using at the time the patent was awarded to Amazon, with their Express Lane Checkout feature, and Amazon was able to have them remove it... Perhaps if you were to continue using the cart to hold multiple products, and offer a similar one-click solution from the shopping cart page, so that they could purchase everything in their cart with one-click (combined with a cookie and stored customer details), it wouldn't fall under the definition of the patented one-click checkout process, being that technically it's two clicks, one to add the product to the cart, and another to checkout completely, and isn't done on a product-by-product basis, but rather is done for all products in the cart at once. Richard. Richard Lindsey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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