
They have also submitted several hundred references for the examiner to consider. In November 2007, Amazon responded by amending the broadest claims (1 and 11) to restrict them to a shopping cart model of commerce.

The patent examiner, however, rejected claims 1 to 5 and 11 to 26.

On October 9, 2007, the USPTO issued an office action in the reexamination which confirmed the patentability of claims 6 to 10 of the patent. Calveley cited as prior art an earlier e-commerce patent and the Digicash electronic cash system. On May 12, 2006, the USPTO ordered a reexamination of the "One-Click" patent, based on a request filed by Peter Calveley. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a patent for this technique to in September 1999. Since the expiration of Amazon's patent, there has been an advent of checkout experience platforms, such as ShopPay, Simpler, PeachPay, Zplit, and Bolt which offer similar one-click checkout flows. Instead of manually inputting billing and shipping information for a purchase, a user can use one-click buying to use a predefined address and credit card number to purchase one or more items. More particularly, it allows an online shopper using an Internet marketplace to purchase an item without having to use shopping cart software.

offering the option to either add an item to the user's cart, or purchase it immediately using 1-Clickġ-Click, also called one-click or one-click buying, is the technique of allowing customers to make purchases with the payment information needed to complete the purchase having been entered by the user previously.
