Method of generating and offering gift certificates for sale
CA 2367918 A1 · Owner: Buchholz, Steven · Inventors: Buchholz, Steven
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A method of generating a gift certificate in which the gift certificate is in the form of a negotiable instrument payable to the identified merchant and drawn upon funds deposited in a depository bank. The method of the current invention further includes registering merchants to participate in a service in which gift certificates for a plurality of merchants are offered from a central location which can be, for example an Internet site.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed April 5, 2000. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 5, 2020.
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