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Apple, Starbucks Sued Over Music Gift Cards
Trintech writes "A Utah couple acting as their own attorneys have filed a lawsuit against Apple and Starbucks over the retailers' recent Song of the Day promotion, which offers Starbucks customers an iTunes gift card for a complimentary, pre-selected song download. In a seven-page formal complaint, James and Marguerite Driessen of Lindon, Utah say they developed in 2000, and were granted a patent in February 2006 for, an Internet merchandising utility dubbed RPOS (retail point of sale). The concept, which forms the heart of the infringement lawsuit, would allow gift cards for pre-defined items that can be sold at a brick-and-mortar store but used online; customers could redeem a card for a dining room set or a DVD, for example."
First?
and then a million voices were silent.
...let me devell - ell-ell it -
This seems reasonable enough to believe - prior art anyone? I bet there is plenty. Maybe it's the new money system. The Internet. Wow!!
[Repeat 3 times]
So let me develop it, sell it to your mates and make a bit of money from it - or maybe you just don't like my type. I probably don't like your type either, so what do you want me to do? Crush you? Nah - that's a negative thing to do. I could probably learn something from you - So...let me dev
There was a brilliant post in the AMD dying piece. Some money decisions are best not left to geeks. But the ones that can string a few decent hits together - could probably top it in any kind of way.
[could someone regular express this]
in any kind of way
on any kind of day
Cheers
True. You know what else bugs me? This story being tagged "complementary" when the spelling "complimentary" in the summary is completely correct.
Your "Homepage" link contains a referral id granting you privileges whenever someone signs up using it. How very, very non-capitalist. (Sarcasm, can you tell it?)
In other news: While Russia isn't all that communisty today, Cuba and China still are. Other common things are extreme government control, censorship, poverty, corruption and so on. To get to the point: Ask an immigration official of either country to grant you citizenship over there while handing over a year worth of your earnings back here and you won't be forced to live in this evil system. You may want to say goodbye to the internet and computers in general first. And your car. And eating warm food twice a day. And to your own room, let alone apartment. And freedom of speech. You'll still be able to publicly criticize your government, just like you can today. Once, for a few minutes.
Since you're not going to emigrate anyways, I have another request: Move your lower back back to MySpace and don't come back 'till out of puberty. Thanks.
No offense to the parent specifically, but why are these kinds of posts continually modded funny? I see at least five of the "patent patents" joke in every patent-related thread, and they got old extremely quickly.
Moddders must be new here...
And you people let it happen. Mod the truth flamebait/troll. You always do anyway.