Amazon's Patent

[handmade34]

"Taking a photo against a white background? Amazon owns the patent on that"

http://www.diyphotography.net/can-close-studio-amazon-patents-photographing-seamless-white/?_ga=1.151414704.880257748.1399596055

"In a patent simply called Studio arrangement Amazon took IP ownership on what we all call shooting against a seamless white backdrop..."

...one of the readers comments...

Perhaps a worldwide "Amazon Patent Infringement Day" would be a good way to deal with this situation.

http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=08676045&idkey=NONE&_ga=1.221348625.880257748.1399596055

[Curmudgeoness]

1. My argument would be

"that isn't white, it is eggshell."

I don't know why I still get shocked by things like this.....after all these years, I would think that there is nothing new under the sun.

[Mz Pip]

2. It's a color.

How can you patent a frigging color?

[jmowreader]

4. Very easily, actually

There are two kinds of patents: design (protects how something looks) and utility (protects how it's made). A shitload of custom corporate colors have received design patents.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. Fuck Amazon.

(Can I say that?)

[handmade34]

5. ...

[TreasonousBastard]

6. The comments in that article were interesting...

and mentioned how this "patent" is so restrictive that hardly anyone will violate it.

But, why do it at all?

[handmade34]

7. ??

maybe an expense against taxes interesting anyways... quite complicated and probably impossible to prove