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...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20050054378 | Mobile communication terminal, game server and game program A mobile communication terminal comprising wireless communication device for making wireless communications, image displaying device for displaying an image and sound outputting device for outputting a sound, the mobile communication terminal generates an execution vari... | 03/10/2005 |
| 20050037709 | Apparatus and method for printing from data provided by a mobile communications device A printing apparatus includes a printer with a detachable faceplate configured to receive data from a mobile communications device. ... | 02/17/2005 |
| 20050037710 | Apparatus for manufacturing management using a wireless device A method of inventory management is described. Upon activation of a button on a wireless device, the wireless device having a light source and a transceiver with a unique media address corresponding to a unique product, the device broadcasts a first signal including an ... | 02/17/2005 |
| 20050032482 | Mobile telecommunications device with cigarette lighter A mobile communications device is provided with an integrally associated ignitor device for enabling the use of the device to light flammable items, such as cigarettes. The combined communications device and ignitor device facilitate the ready availability of an ignitor... | 02/10/2005 |
| 20050026651 | Cellular phone for multiple way call The present invention is to provide a cellular phone for multiple way call, which comprises IR device, the IR device being activated when the cellular phone is in connection with a base station for conveying speeches with a plurality of second cellular phones nearby eac... | 02/03/2005 |
| 20050012958 | Image reproducing apparatus In an image reproducing apparatus according to the present invention, image printing apparatuses capable of performing radio communication are sought, and service information relating to contents of image printing services provided by image printing apparatuses so detec... | 01/20/2005 |
| 20050003774 | Synchronization of optical signaling beacons An arbitrary number of signaling beacons are synchronized simultaneously and automatically by a received modulated control signal in accordance with an arbitrary communication protocol over a communication link which may be separate from or superimposed upon a perceptib... | 01/06/2005 |
