This coverage of the legality panel continues my series of articles about CodeCon. The legality panel took place at the end of Day 2, February 16. The participants were Fred von Lohmann, Senior Staff Attorney for the EFF; Phil Zimmermann, author of PGP; and Jon Callas, who has worked for Counterpane, Pretty Good Privacy, and Apple and worked to eliminate cryptography export controls.
Because I think the subject of legality of P2P applications is of great interest to infoAnarchy readers, I've separated this coverage of the panel into its own article to give it more extensive treatment. What follows is based primarily on the notes of what was said that I took at the time, and so it is very stream-of-consciousness in most places, much like the panel itself. I've only put statements in quotation marks when they are direct quotes. However, this was written down live and I don't have a recording, so some of the quotations may not be phrased exactly as they were said.
A lone blogger has recently mailed a request for re-examination of the Amazon "One-Click" shopping patent to the US Patent Office. As prior art, he is using an early e-commerce patent and some information about DigiCash from sources such as the Wayback machine, which ironically uses data from Alexa (wholly owned by Amazon).

He is asking others to submit additional prior art and points out that there may be other prior art that can be found. He is also looking for donations to cover some of his costs such as the USD $2,520 reexamination fee.