Re: Bezos on 1-click ordering

[John Nolan <jpnolan@sonic.net>]

> 
> >>My apologies, I think we're off topic already.  :)
> 
> LOL... "off the topic?"  I am just happy to see people in here exchanging
> ideas about something other than where you are going to eat after the next
> meeting.


Maybe next time you can have dinner at the patent office.  

(And you can eat some patents.)  ;)


After reading the O'Reilly/Bezos article, I started brainstorming 
about non-software "innovations".  I was thinking of all the neat 
retail ideas which many shops use, but surely were originally 
thought up by one company and merely copied by its competitors.  
Are any of these patented?   

  2 for 1 sales
  buyer's club cards
  coffee shop inside the bookstore
  bank inside the supermarket
  book signings / book tours
  gift certificates
  gift certificate magentized cards with no fixed amount
  10% off all day if you sign up for the department store card
  discount on gas with a car wash
  pay at the pump (surely implementing this required more
    development than 1-click shopping)
  red-colored beer 

If you want a patent for any of these, let me know.
I'll send you one.   ;) 

I'll even frame it for you.  It will be a reframed idea.  ;) 

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