Posted on 04/08/2005 12:00:44 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian
Court Denies Smucker's PB&J Pastry Patent
By MALIA RULON Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- There's only so far you can go in trying to patent the ever-popular peanut butter and jelly sandwich. On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected an effort by J.M. Smucker Co. to patent its process for making pocket-size peanut butter and jelly pastries called "Uncrustables."
Smucker's peanut butter and jelly pockets are enclosed without a crust using a crimping method that the Orrville, Ohio, company says is one of a kind and should be protected from duplication by federal law.
Patent examiners at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office disagreed, saying the crimped edges are similar to making ravioli or a pie crust.
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is that link supposed to take you to the article?
top link works. bottom one just gets a template.
So I guess my plan to patent the idea of selling goods to customers in exchange for money is not going to fly.
Maybe if they named the "mangled baby ducks"?
The bottom one worked for me.
You'll get caught on my prior art patents of both money and goods.
Not so fast. I believe my prior patent on the patenting process has you both trumped.
I've been making sandwiches like these for years using a nifty little Pampered Chef tool. Maybe I need to patent my "unique" method of first flattening the bread with my palm before adding the globs of PB & J.
Not so fast. I believe my prior patent on the patenting process has you both trumped.
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Yore Tool Ate . . . with a name like Smucker's . . . . . . . . .
Ewe no watt eye mene !!! ;-))
I'd like to patent the wheel.
Welcome to our planet. Unfortunately, I don't speak Titanian. And although it appears that you are making remarkable progress with Earthling English, I regret that I am still not able to understand your poinr.
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