[Ten Megaton Solution]

Toast, US Patent #6,080,436

A Patent for a varation on the theme of Peanut Butter and Jelly, UP Patent #6,004,596

James Randi on PB & J:
When I found out they'd issued a patent recently on "toast" and on a variety of the peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich, I was sufficiently stunned, but this one is The Winner in the Stupid Field, hands-down. I cannot, in my widest imaginings (and I'm adept at that art, I assure you) come up with any means of turning a profit on 6,368,227, unless the intent is to close down playgrounds all over the globe.... Look it up, but be seated when you read it....

[AndrewC]

You were right!

Unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here are the guilty parties.

United States Patent	6,368,227
Olson	April 9, 2002

Primary Examiner: Nguyen; Kien T.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Olson; Peter Lowell

[CobaltBlue]

Thanks for the silly patents. My husband collects silly patents, I need to make sure he has those.

The one I asked about earlier he says is for a perpetual motion machine, but it's being reviewed.

He says food patents are really hard to do because there are no engineering specialties that are related. A close friend of his did food for years -- she hated it -- as a reward they made her an Administrative Law Judge.

A lot of it has to do with making food different colors. Design patents aren't as hard to get as utility patents.