[JoeFromCA]

Why not try a simple Google search rather than take up vanity space on a non-political/non-news topic on Free Republic?:

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/documents/appxr_1_48.htm

[JoeProBono]

General/Chat

[TexasAg]

ProudFossil, note that the links Nervous Tick and JoeFromCA provided are for pending applications, not issued patents. Go talk to a patent attorney.

[jla]

To 9 - Why don't you cease playing 'site moderator'? Who are you to dictate what is or is not acceptable here?

By the way, have you also admonished those who submitted threads on various celebrities? Sports? The Friday Silliness Thread?
If you haven't, why not?

[Revelation 911]

im personally sick of those damned recipe threads - this one at least posed an interesting question