Patent 7578393 was granted and assigned to Origin (financial markets company) on August, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The invention relates to the provision of package which can be used in a first condition for retail purposes such that an item or items and/or information relating to the item(s) within the package, can be viewed externally of the package, and a second condition for use as, for example, a gift, in which the item and/or information is masked from external view. In one embodiment the change between first and second conditions can be achieved by moving a flap of the packaging between first and second locations.