It was recently announced that Amazon.com’s 1-click payment patent will be recon­sidered by the USPTO, but what is so inter­esting is that it was not filed by one of Amazon.com’s business competitors or by an NPO like the Electronic Frontier Foundation which protects online freedom, but from a New Zealand actor who paid the reexam­i­nation fee with money raised through his blog for the purpose.

In his words, this is about nothing more than payback for an annoy­ingly slow book delivery.