Thursday November 26, 2009
The description, together with the claims, are often referred to as the specification. As the words suggests, these are the sections of the patent application where you specify what your machine or process is and how it differs from previous patents and technology.
The drawing to the left is an actual drawing from a patent and is described in the patent in the following way - - Fig. 1 is a semi-diagrammatic view of a tent and tent frame according to one embodiment of the invention, showing the tent as erected;
Sunday November 22, 2009
This year (2009) Thanksgiving Day, a bit of a roving holiday, falls on November 26. Did you know that "MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE" is a word mark? That's a registered trademark - Registration Number 2206890.
Food often takes center stage at Thanksgiving, and there are many well-known Thanksgiving-related products protected by patents and trademarks. One way to spend more time with family and less in the kitchen cleaning up is by using a disposable cooking pan (patent #5,628,427) or a cooking jacket (patent #4,942,809) for the turkey, ham or roast. One non-traditional, but increasingly popular, way to cook a turkey is deep-frying, and one type of equipment used in this preparation is protected by patent # 5,758,569.
Some well-known trademarks associated with turkey and dressing, must-haves at many Thanksgiving tables, are Butterball (registration #1151836) for turkey products. What holiday feast would be complete without cranberry sauce such as Ocean Spray (registration #2150919) Desserts are always the final complement to a Thanksgiving feast. For those that do not bake their own, Sara Lee's slogan for its pies and cakes, "Nobody Doesn't Like Sara Lee," is protected by a trademark (registration #1885156). Photo Credit: Erik Rank/Getty Images Illustration: Mary Bellis
Saturday November 21, 2009
Check it out. QVC has posted a message in our forum looking for new products.
Saturday November 21, 2009
Marc wrote to me asking for clarification about who invented cream cheese. Marc, after a bit more research I now have a name. In 1872, cream cheese was invented by American dairymen, William Lawrence of Chester, N.Y., who accidentally developed a method of producing cream cheese while trying to reproduce a French cheese called Neufchatel.
