In an important decision for those interested in perusing patent protection in Canada, the the Federal Court of Canada reversed a decision by the Canadian Patent Office that business methods represent unpatentable subject matter.
The decision concerned Amazon.com’s famous one-click method for paying for items in an online shopping cart (see above). This patent was issued in the United States (and later was reissued after being challenged by a third party). (Interestingly, in Europe, Amazon filed a patent application for the one-click invention and it was considered to represent patentable subject matter. The European patent application was rejected on other grounds).
Amazon v. Canada (2010 FC 1011) can be accessed here.