Apple Patentmania: 31 Years of Big Ideas

A visual history of Apple patent filings: the brilliant, the bizarre, the just plain bad.

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Apple Patents Gift Card Carrier

Gift Card Carriers

Filed November 17th, 2006

Not every Apple patent involves hardware, software, services, or the artful combination thereof. This one, for instance, is for a particular type of gift-card folder. I’m not sure if it’s resulted in a product, but I’m pretty positive that I don’t recall Steve Jobs unveiling anything of this sort at a keynote.

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