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Title: X-POST: Western Union Obtains Alternative Currency Exchange System Patent
Post by: row5_seat47 on May 07, 2014, 01:32:29 AM
Western Union Obtains Alternative Currency Exchange System Patent from USPTO:
Alternative value exchange systems and methods

No Joke Patent 8,688,563 Granted on April Fools Day 2014..was Filed in October 2009

“…Methods and systems for exchanging alternative currencies…”

Original article here https://medium.com/p/23f9de5dc65e


OP here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=598437.0


Title: Re: X-POST: Western Union Obtains Alternative Currency Exchange System Patent
Post by: cbeast on May 07, 2014, 01:37:13 AM
Looks like they are patenting every currency since the shekel.


Title: Re: X-POST: Western Union Obtains Alternative Currency Exchange System Patent
Post by: lijiaren on May 07, 2014, 04:37:40 PM
I don't think