Comments on: “I’m Making A Sandwich. Want One?” “You Can’t. McDonalds Patented Them.”

By: Olivia

Olivia — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:23:44 +0000

There is loads of information out there exposing the ingredients in McDonald’s to be toxic and very bad for your health. Fatuous nonsense. And typical of the way the word “toxic” is misused by the ignorant and the scaremongering. McDonalds food is not unhealthy – consuming calories and fat to excess, regardless of what fast food restaurant prepared it, is unhealthy. And McDonalds’ food is not toxic, by any rational English-speaker’s definition of the word “toxic”.

By: KarmaBaby

KarmaBaby — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 03:16:17 +0000

99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
— Steven Wright

By: Athon

Athon — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:01:01 +0000

Have the patent lawyers gone mad!

To quote an early poster…I too look forward to a new congress…but it’s just more of the same shit, different party, not a bloody thing will change until a third party comes to minority power…which I fear is another 6 years off, by then we’ll be off the deep end and learning Mandarin.

By: OhForTheLoveOf

OhForTheLoveOf — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:42:33 +0000

#21 – Alex – If you wanna waste your time and actually read the article, just so you can be “informed” and “educated” then you go right ahead.

The rest of us are just fine to wallow in biased conjecture and unfounded accusation.

All the damn lawyers need to die!

By: forrest

forrest — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:55:08 +0000

Ahhh…I thought you cannot patent a business process…

Isn’t the method of making a sandwich a business process…?

This is pretty dumb…

By: LiuNam

LiuNam — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:53:51 +0000

“help its hot deli sandwiches look and taste the same at all of its restaurants”

They already do. McDonald’s sandwiches always taste like cardboard .

By: RBG

RBG — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:02:10 +0000

Reminds me of an item I read years ago where a fellow received a patent for handles on a wheelbarrow and managed, for a time anyway, to patent the entire wheelbarrow.

RBG

By: Smartalix

Smartalix — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:21:24 +0000

Everyone is blaming the lawyers when it is obviously those who are hiring them that are the problem.

By: Deanoh

Deanoh — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:50:01 +0000

Does anyone know about what happened with ugg boots? I am an aussie and it caused a ruccus over here a couple of years ago.
You see the name ‘ugg boot’ is a generic term to describe the sheepskin boots that have been around for years. Apparently someone took out a patent on the name in the 1970′s but no-one took much notice because it was such a generic term.

Anyhow, a couple of years ago one of the large American firms bought the patent for the term ‘ugg boot’ and all it’s variants. This company then started the whole cease and desist threat term to all the Australian manufacturers who called their product ugg boots. They were told they had to call their product by some other name. I

t went on for a while and was a real bone of contention for a couple of years – going to court etc. There have even been documentaries made about the whole thing.

Just beware – If McDonalds gets to own sandwich – we may have to start getting used to eating McSandiches!

By: Neal at Into Your Head

Neal at Into Your Head — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:28:06 +0000

Do McD’s even SELL sandwiches? They don’t here in Ireland, and that article is from the U.K. – I’ m pretty sure they don’t do sandwiches there.

Except maybe a couple of chicken burgers that are called “sandwiches” for some reason.

By: Emery

Emery — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 03:57:36 +0000

Q: What do you call 100 patent lawyers up their necks in sand? A: Not enough sand. Q: What do you call 100 patent lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A: A good start. Q: Why are all the patent lawyers in L.A> and all the gays in San Francisco? A: Frisco had first choice. Q: How do you get a patent lawyer out of a tree? A: Cut the rope.

By: noname

noname — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:25:50 +0000

Damn if the wheel has been patented. Then Ok, what about breathing, I will patent the “method and apparatus” of breathing. That should give me a nice competitive advantage. While I am at it I should also patent the “method and apparatus” of blood pumping, peeing … Why not they hold the patent to half my genes.

By: Eideard

Eideard — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:20:11 +0000

#12 — I guess I could have mentioned this during recent posts about thought-controlled computers — but, Toshiba has been granted a patent for the concept.

By: sdf

sdf — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:11:13 +0000

Isn’t anyone thinking of Nicole Richie? Won’t someone please think of Nicole Richie!

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:08:00 +0000

MacDo is invading UK territory with this one and slapping the Brits in the face with an affront on their history. Supporters of the Earl of Sandwich will be boycotting the stores nationwide if this goes through. It will be an Industrial Food revolution like you have never seen before.