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Re:Google Parcel Service? Search giant patents shipping noti... by EvanKelly on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @06:59PM (#2870580)
Is doing the same thing as someone already does, but from a different role in the relationship really patentable?

Apparently.

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Re:Google Parcel Service? Search giant patents shipping noti... by mburns on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @08:10PM (#2870785)
Toasted bread was patented in 2000:

http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=IpwDAAAAEBAJ

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Re:Google Parcel Service? Search giant patents shipping noti... by CamperBob on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @08:18PM (#2870806)
At 2500 degrees? That's novel, I guess, but it sounds more like a patent for sublimating the bread than for toasting it.
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Re:Google Parcel Service? Search giant patents shipping noti... by EvanKelly on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @08:31PM (#2870834)
I can't believe I read an entire patent on "Bread Refreshing", but I agree that this is different than what conventional toasters do.

I thought it was interesting that they restricted time from 3 - 90 seconds. I wonder what kind of bread can undergo 3000 degree temperatures for 90 seconds and still be edible.

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Re:Google Parcel Service? Search giant patents shipping noti... by aristidb on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @07:30PM (#2870680)
It is totally non-obvious that somebody else than normally would send tracking information.

Sorry for the snark.

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