SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast

Re:SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast by dragandj on Saturday February 15, 2020 @03:28PM (#22337756)

Interesting trivia: Zume owns the patent for "cooking on the way". These days you can really patent everything (in USA only, I hope)... What about mobile hot dog stand? Isn't that prior art?

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Re:SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast by Bluestrike2 on Saturday February 15, 2020 @04:15PM (#22338034)

Pizza Hut had a 1984 patent for a mobile delivery/kitchen truck that would cook the pizza en route to the customer.[1] Zume's patent even cites it[1]. Just skimming over both filings, I'm kind of surprised it was issued in the first place.

0. https://patents.google.com/patent/US4632836A/en

1. https://patents.justia.com/patent/10140587

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Re:SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast by ProZsolt on Saturday February 15, 2020 @07:39PM (#22339062)

Zume: https://patents.google.com/patent/US10140587B2

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Re:SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast by rhizome on Saturday February 15, 2020 @04:00PM (#22337934)

I'm sure there's enough desperate money like Son's in the VC/PE world that a patent for anything and a decent story can get you a meeting and a term sheet.

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