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Promotional carrier for promoting pharmaceutical prescription products

  • US 7,996,260 B1
  • Filed: 04/28/2004
  • Issued: 08/09/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/13/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of promoting one or more prescription pharmaceutical products comprising:

  • a. securing one or more transferable stickers to a carrier where each sticker identifies at least one prescription pharmaceutical product;

    b. providing a payment vehicle for paying at least a portion of the cost of one of the prescription pharmaceutical products identified by the stickers and wherein the payment vehicle forms a part of the carrier;

    c. electronically associating in a database all of the prescription pharmaceutical products identified by the stickers with a number on the payment vehicle, wherein the database is associated with a central computing station;

    d. after the payment vehicle is presented to the pharmacy, receiving electronically communicated information at the database indicating the number associated with the payment vehicle and the prescription pharmaceutical product identified by one of the stickers that has been transferred onto the payment vehicle;

    e. comparing the number electronically received at the database with the prescription pharmaceutical product identified by the sticker on the payment vehicle;

    f. electronically communicating to the pharmacy through the central computing station that the payment vehicle is valid and can be used to pay for at least a portion of the cost of the prescription pharmaceutical product identified by the sticker transferred onto the payment vehicle.

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