Comment by willcipriano
7 months ago
Standard oil invented tanker cars and built pipelines. Everyone else was stuck unloading 55 gallon drums from normal railcars beacuse of patents and relative lack of investment.
Then the government broke standard oil up, rather than revoke the patent or reform the system in away way, and prices got higher for consumers in the end.
This is often brought up as a success story. Patents never have worked as intended.
At least with Heinz recipes are specifically not covered by patents.
Milk "recipes" are: https://patents.google.com/patent/US2550584A/en
So are fruit leather "recipes": https://patents.google.com/patent/AU2021200204B2/en
I'd imagine they had something like that. Probably have to do something special to not burn the ketchup while you heat it.
Calling almond milk a milk drink is a bad idea. It should be milk-like almond drink.
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This patents a machine for pasteurization. The fact of pasteurization, getting milk to the target temperature, is not copyrightable. You would just have to use a different machine but you could still pasteurize.
My favorite snack ever, since discontinued, are also covered by patent. Partially popped popcorn that used to be at Trader Joe's.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US7579036B2/en