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."

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Re:LMAO

[apathy maybe]

We live in a capitalist system with governments and states all around. I cannot leave this system, I am forced to live in it.

What you are saying is that by even working I must support capitalism, even though I would starve otherwise.

I suggest that you head on over to my "homepage", sign up and then post there what you just posted here. It will quickly be explained to you in much greater depth then I can be bothered just now, why you are wrong.

Utah! Home of the litigious bastards.

[gandhi_2]

In the spirit of full disclosure, I'm from Utah.

So SCO, now these guys? Another couple years of "A Utah [something's] legal crusade..." in the news.

When these guys are done, I got dibs on suing the Jehovah's Witnesses over "methods for recruiting members by sending missionaries in ties door-to-door".