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Comments: 1 +-   USPTO Issues "Paper-or-Plastic?" Patent to on Tuesday August 05 2008, @02:31AM theodp

Submitted by theodp on Tuesday August 05 2008, @02:31AM
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theodp writes "On Tuesday, IBM was granted U.S. Patent No. 7,407,089 for storing a preference for paper or plastic grocery bags on customer cards and displaying a picture of said preference after a card is scanned. The invention, Big Blue explains, eliminates the 'unnecessary inconvenience for both the customer and the cashier' that results when 'Paper or Plastic?' must be asked. The patent claims also cover affixing a cute sticker of a paper or plastic bag to a customer card to indicate packaging preferences. So does this pass the 'significant technical content' test, IBM'ers?"
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