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Amazon Patents Getting Numbers Off a Check

Posted by timothy on from the rational-actor dept.

theodp writes "After two rejections, Amazon was granted a patent Tuesday for the Extraction of bank routing number from information entered by a user, which covers the process of obtaining a routing and checking account number from information entered by a user from the face of a check. The patent application was filed in the week preceding Amazon's Call for Patent Reform."

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  1. Next I will patent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I will patent shitting device, done by a device called an anus and call the product shit.

    Get lost stupid patents.