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Amazon Patents Recognizing Top Reviewers
from the non-obvious? dept
theodp writes "Seems there really isn't anything you can't patent these days. It took seven-and-a-half years, but the USPTO awarded patent reformer Amazon.com a patent Tuesday for its invention of Creating an Incentive to Author Useful Item Reviews, aka Top Reviewers, a program that rewards those who have written as many as 17,308 free reviews with a free virtual 'badge'."
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I'm never clear on the specificity of patents, but this one sure looks to me to be specific only to systems that use Amazon's formula of k(2(A+B+C)-(D+E))
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Hasn't Ebay been doing that for quite a while longer than Amazon?
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k(2(A+B+C)-(D+E))
the square root of...
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