M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on Amazon.com’s order fulfillment patents

Date:  Fri, 2012-02-17

M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on Amazon.com’s order fulfillment patents

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – February 17, 2012 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on Amazon.com’s order fulfillment patents.

Last year, Amazon spent nearly $4.6 billion or 10% of its net sales on fulfillment. To offset those expenses, Amazon has been monetizing its fulfillment capabilities through arrangements with its marketplace sellers and leveraging its purchasing power with delivery companies. In 2011 alone, Amazon generated over $1.5 billion in shipping related revenue. Clearly, these fulfillment strategies are vital to Amazon as are, by default, the proprietary technologies that underpin them. Is Amazon’s intellectual property portfolio sufficient to defend these strategies?

M·CAM’s Patently Obvious® is a weekly report providing visibility into potentially unconsidered alternatives, including art in the public domain, to patent holdings across a variety of technology areas.

M·CAM, Inc. is a global, full-service intellectual property and rights (IP&R) and intangible asset financial services firm. We provide the technical and financial systems that allow public and private markets to use IP&R and IA for regulated transactions in banking, securities, insurance, and public innovation investment and technology procurement. From our pioneering work in creating the world’s first standards-based innovation collateralization financial products for banking and securities to our work in grassroots innovator enablement and patent quality assurance programs, M·CAM provides the mechanism to balance the interests of public and commercial sectors to support and build thriving economies.

The M·CAM Patently Obvious® report on Amazon.com’s order fulfillment patents can be found HERE.