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Standard oil invented tanker cars and built pipelines. Everyone else was stuck unloading 55 gallon drums from normal railcars beacuse of patents and relative la
by willcipriano 3y 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.
- bobthepanda 3y agoAt least with Heinz recipes are specifically not covered by patents.
- willcipriano 3y agoMilk "recipes" are: https://patents.google.com/patent/US2550584A/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US2550584A/en So are fruit leather "recipes": https://patents.google.com/patent/AU2021200204B2/en 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.
- nashashmi 3y agoCalling almond milk a milk drink is a bad idea. It should be milk-like almond drink.
- bobthepanda 3y agoAlmond milk has a etymology in English dating all the way back to 1381. https://www.oed.com/dictionary/almond-milk_n https://www.oed.com/dictionary/almond-milk_n Alternative milks were common in a time period before refrigeration and pasteurization. It just kept longer.
- 0cVlTeIATBs 3y agoMy 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 https://patents.google.com/patent/US7579036B2/en
- bobthepanda 3y agoThis 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.