
This disturbs me in a number of ways...
Shouldn't a patent promote progress in some way... Apple is trying to involve NFC and make the whole gift giving experience a bit more interactive.
Wait, this really seems geared toward making sure that gifts that include DRM are going to work... um, really... Shouldn't DRM be fixed or removed if it's not doing what it should be... why do we need another patented technology just to make it work like it should in the first place.
I'm guilty of not reading through the entire patent and I'm no patent system expert, so I may just be off base here... Isn't this all existing techology? wouldn't that make this a business process... I thought business processes were not patent-able...
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