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Scott Shaffer has nicely written up a decision by the US Patent Office to reject 95 patents in the area of bar code recognition that had been successfully blocking a number of ventures in the area of bar code recognition.

Very good news for a project that got as far as a prototype before we realized what the patent situation was. You may notice that we list barcodes as an area of expertise. They have wide application in operational processes allowing the tagging of communicated paperwork for familiar and currently unfamiliar reasons.

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