After years of trying, the U.S. government may mandate safer table saws

Re:After years of trying, the U.S. government may mandate sa... by willcipriano on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @02:37PM (#39982635)

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.

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Re:After years of trying, the U.S. government may mandate sa... by bobthepanda on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @02:46PM (#39982719)

At least with Heinz recipes are specifically not covered by patents.

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Re:After years of trying, the U.S. government may mandate sa... by willcipriano on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @02:49PM (#39982759)

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.

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Re:After years of trying, the U.S. government may mandate sa... by 0cVlTeIATBs on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @03:11PM (#39983056)

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

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Re:After years of trying, the U.S. government may mandate sa... by nashashmi on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @03:10PM (#39983042)

Calling almond milk a milk drink is a bad idea. It should be milk-like almond drink.

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Re:After years of trying, the U.S. government may mandate sa... by bobthepanda on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @05:37PM (#39984560)

Almond milk has a etymology in English dating all the way back to 1381. https://www.oed.com/dictionary/almond-milk_n

Alternative milks were common in a time period before refrigeration and pasteurization. It just kept longer.

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Re:After years of trying, the U.S. government may mandate sa... by bobthepanda on Saturday April 13, 2024 @03:26PM (#40025345)

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.

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