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Tom Cannavan's wine-pages.com
tasting note search
organised tastings
meet the winemakers
wines of the month
value wines
wine of the week
meet the winemakers
There are hundreds of winemakers interviewed under the 'organised tastings' and 'features' links above, usually in the context of a big tasting report or a tour of a wine region. But now and again I have the chance to have a winemaker present their wines to me, so these "meet the winemakers" features were born. It is difficult to know whether to arrange these in order of winemaker name or winery name, but I have opted for the latter: alphabetical by winery. Note that winemakers do change jobs from time to time, so some of the interviewees below will have moved on. I hope you enjoy getting to know this diverse bunch of characters.
meeting Champagne Jacquart's winemaker, Florian Esznak
Domaines de Baumard, Loire Valley, France with Florent Baumard
Albali, Spain with Félix Solís Ramos
d'Anguera of Montsant, Spain with Joan & Josep d'Anguera
d'Arenberg, Australia with Chester & d'Arry Osborn
Artadi, Rioja, Spain with Juan Carlos Lopez
Au Bon Climat, California with Jim Clendenen
Barbeito, Madeira with Ricardo de Freitas
Beaucastel, Rhône with François Perrin
Bouchard-Finlayson, South Africa with Peter Finlayson
Briego, Ribera del Duero, Spain with Gil Nunez
Cálem Port, Portugal with Rogério Silva
Cèdre (Château du), Cahors, France with Pascal Verhaeghe
Chave, Hermitage, Rhône with Jean-Louis Chave
Clark (David), Burgundy with David Clark
Clos de Tart, Burgundy with Sylvain Pitiot
Cook Wines, Roussillon, France with Andy Cook
Concha y Toro, Chile with Marcello Papa
Contino & CVNE Rioja, Spain with Jesús Madrazo
Cornelissen Wines, Sicily, Italy with Frank Cornelissen
Coulon (Roger) Champagne, France with Eric Coulon
Craggy Range, New Zealand with Steve Smith
Domaine A, Tasmania with Peter Althaus
Dry River, New Zealand with Neil McCallum
Esk Valley, New Zealand with Gordon Russell
Far Niente, Napa Valley, USA with Dirk Hampson
Gallo of Sonoma, California with Gina Gallo
Giraud (Henri) Champagne, France with Claude Giraud
Glaetzer Wines, Australia with Ben Glaetzer
Greywacke, Marlborough, New Zealand with Kevin Judd
Haut-Bailly, Bordeaux with Veronique Sanders
Gros (Anne), Burgundy with Anne, Michel and Bernard Gros
Guigal, Rhône, France with Philippe Guigal
Hardy's, Australia with Bill Hardy
Haut-Brion, Bordeaux with Jean Delmas
Hobbs (Paul), California with Paul Hobbs
Hollick Estate, Australia with Ian Hollick
Howard Park, Western Australia with Jeff and Amy Burch
Huet, Loire with Noël Pinguet
Jacques (Château des), Beaujolais with Guillaume Castelnau
Katnook Estate, Australia with Wayne Stehbens
Kim Crawford, New Zealand with Kim Crawford
Knappstein, Australia with Andrew Hardy
Krug Champagne, France with Olivier Krug
Casa Lapostolle, Chile with Cyril de Bournet
Laroche, Chablis with Michel Laroche
Dr Loosen, the Mosel, Germany with Ernie Loosen
Longridge, South Africa with Ben Radford
Lowe Family Wines, Australia with Jane Wilson
Marcarini, Piedmont, Italy with Manual Marchetti
Maximin Grünhäuser, Germany with Carl von Schubert
Markus Molitor, Germany with Markus Molitor
Mumm Champagne, France with Dominique Demarville
Nepenthe Estate, Australia with Peter Leske
Odfjell, Chile with Arnaud Hereu
Opitz (Willi), Austria with Willi Opitz
Ornellaia, Italy with Thomas Duroux
Paillard (Bruno) Champagne, with Bruno Paillard
Pendarves Estate, Australia with Phillip Norrie
Penfolds, Australia with Peter Gago
Pewsey Vale, Australia with Louisa Rose
Pol Roger Champagne , France with Patrick Noyelle
Pretterebner, Austria with Rolf Pretterebner
Prophet's Rock, New Zealand with Paul Pujol
Punt Road, Yarra Valley, Australia with Kate Goodman
Revelette, Provence with Peter Fischer
Sacred Hill, New Zealand with Tony Bish
Sebastiani, California with Bob Broman
Staete Landt, Marlborough with Ruud Maasdam
Tardieu-Laurent, Rhône, France with Michel Tardieu
Terras d'Alter, Portugal with Peter Bright
Terrazes, Argentina with Roberto de la Mota
Tramontane Wines, Roussillon, France with Andy Cook
Trimbach, Alsace, France with Jean Trimbach
Valli Vineyard, New Zealand with Grant Taylor
Villa Maria, New Zealand with Michelle Richardson
Vistamar, Chile with Eugenia Díaz
Vivanco, Rioja, Spain with Rafael Vivanco
Yering Station, Australia with Tom Carson
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After exposing the manipulation of ninemsn's online poll a couple of weeks ago I sent an email to ninemsn pointing out that their polling software had issues and was being tampered with to favour left wing issues. They sent a response a few days later saying it had been forwarded to the news department for review.
The latest poll to suffer this attack is "Should school corporal punishment be reintroduced?" This time, the manipulation has been in favour of what would be considered a right wing position - the yes vote. I would have a fair bet that the same people manipulating previous polls to favour left wing positions are using this one to try and show there's an 'other side' doing the same thing.
The following are the initial, mid point and last screen captures through the first 30 or so hours of the poll.
16-June: 9.22AM - Yes 1,084; No 505 - Y/N ratio 2.147
16-June: 11.12PM - Yes 39,209; No 17,216 - Y/N ratio 2.277
17-June: 4.58PM - Yes 52,498; No 23,210 - Y/N ratio 2.262
As can be seen, for over 30 hours the polling is consistently running 2:1 with the yes vote. When I checked ninemsn this morning the following was the poll status:
18-June: 8.51AM - Yes 261,122; No 33,832 - Y/N ratio 7.718
Between late yesterday afternoon and this morning the votes have been: Yes-208,624, No-10,622 - Y/N ratio 19.641.
I estimate that there are around 185,000 fake votes in this poll calculated as: 208624 - (10622 x 2.2).
Is the fact that people are manipulating ninemsn's poll serious in the grand scheme of things? Not normally. However, in the current highly charged political climate leading up to the election at the end of the year, the manipulation of polls is clearly aimed at influencing public opinion.

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The American Heart Association recognizes PinnacleHealth for achieveing 85% or higher composite adherence to all Mission: Lifeline STEMI Receiving Center Peformance Achievement indicators for consecutive 90-day intervals and 75% or higher compliance on all Mission: Lifeline STEMI receiving Center quality measures to improve the quality of care for STEMI patient.
PinnacleHealth Breast Care Center Receives National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC). NAPBC is a national coalition of professional healthcare organizations dedicated to the highest quality of care for women and men diagnosed with diseases of the breast. The NAPBC promotes a holistic approach to treatment for patients diagnosed with diseases of the breast, and provides a framework for a continuum of care that meets the needs of the whole person and not just the disease.
Centers that seek NAPBC accreditation must complete a comprehensive on-line application and an on-site inspection by an NAPBC surveyor who verifies the availability of 17 components of care, and validates compliance with 27 evidence-based standards of care required to achieve NAPBC accreditation. To maintain accreditation the center is required to document ongoing compliance with the standards on an annual basis and undergo an on-site inspection every three years. To learn more about the NAPBC, visit the NAPBC website at http://www.accreditedbreastcenters.org.
The National eHealthcare Leadership Awards program was developed and first presented 13 years ago by eHealthcare Strategy & Trends, a leading industry resource published by Health Care Communications, Rye, NY. Winners of the 2012 eHealthcare Leadership Awards were selected from nearly 1,100 entries. A total of 115 individuals familiar with healthcare and the Internet judged the entries. Winners were awarded on November 14 during the Sixteenth Annual Healthcare Internet Conference in Las Vegas.
Judges looked at how websites and other digital communications compared with others in their organization's classification. They also reviewed entries based on a proprietary multi-point standard of Internet excellence. The best overall Internet site category, for example, had to pass muster on more than 40 factors. PinnacleHealth won Platinum award in Best overall Internet Site alongside Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic, Gold award in Best Site Design, Gold award in Best Doctor Directory.


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When Rick Rugg and Bob Schiffhauer founded the first of their gyms in 1980, they chartered their gym around three values: service, cleanliness, and having owners operate their own facilities. True to the founders' original vision, each location's employees strive to keep their cardio and resistance equipment spic and span as they care for facilities. In addition to personal training, instructors lead a schedule of more than 400 group fitness classes?including cycling, Kardio Kick, and Zumba?offered each week across their eight locations. At the clubs, trainers also help guests master CrossFit functional equipment and use TRX suspension training systems to help them connect with their vine-savvy pet orangutans.
Environmental preservation, rehabilitation, and education abound at Hawk Creek Wildlife Center, a sanctuary harboring more than 80 nonreleasable animals from around the globe, a number of which have made on-screen appearances with the likes of Rachael Ray and Conan O'Brien. In its 25th year, the nonprofit, volunteer-driven organization hosts more than 2,500 educational programs and numerous events showcasing its panoply of raptors, wildcats, and barn owls, that, since 1994, have blossomed thanks to Hawk Creek's barn-owl-breeding project. Hands-on activities place visitors face-to-face with the facility's feathered residents—including a bald eagle—and an onsite gift shop brims with ornithological souvenirs and signed headshots of Big Bird.
The consortium of professional instructors at Fred Astaire Dance Studio, which was cofounded by the legendary toe tapper himself, shepherds students of all ages and skill levels through lessons that span the style spectrum. Low-pressure private sessions allow enthusiastic teachers to fine-tune individual students' techniques and form, using their expert eyes and mechanical dancing shoes preprogrammed to do the Charleston. Patrons can learn how to cavort through classic waltz and fox-trot romps or swivel through the modern steps of salsa, swing, or samba. For dancers hoping to hoof it up in a social setting, the group practice parties provide a one-night extravaganza of instruction, demonstrations, and amateur firewalking.
There are more than 2,000 short tracks in the United States. Among them, fewer than 60 are NASCAR-sanctioned. Holland NASCAR Motorsports Complex is one of the few with such distinction. The raceway has guzzled the fumes of that rarified air since 1960, when it was built as a 1/3-mile facility surrounded by just 1,200 seats. In 1964, the course expanded to 3/8 mile, and four years later, asphalt replaced the outdated shag carpeting as the track's surface. Today, Holland packs up to 7,000 spectators into its grandstands. It completes the race-day experience with various amenities, including The Midway, where fans can fuel up on snacks and drinks, and The Village, where fans party under large tents and around picnic tables.
Originally sculpted into the rolling terrain of western New York in 1920, South Shore's 18-hole course invites golfers of all stripes to conquer its pristine fairways. The grassy monolith stretches across 150 acres of scenic, parkland terrain, where players must shape their shots around babbling creeks, mature trees, and lakes where discontent golf balls live out fantasies of becoming submarines in search of Atlantis, the Utopian land responsible for the Arnold Palmer drink. A pro shop and clubhouse sit on the scenic hillsides, beckoning players with post-round beverages, upgraded golf accessories, and slice-prone spirits yelling "fore" at one another.
It isn't called a laboratory for nothing, even if the light fixtures aren't actually made from converted beakers. At Buffalo Laboratory Theatre, classic plays get experimental makeovers and new works make their stage debuts. Even if an audience believes they are watching a straightforward staging of a time-honored production such as Hamlet, they can rest assured that something is different—the actors might have relied on a unique rehearsal technique, or the director may have devised an entirely new presentational style. By keeping their work fresh and unpredictable, the artists at BLT aim to make every raise of the curtain a magical experience.


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Mike Dayton wrote:Welcome Jeremy, Glad to have you aboard, I am pleased to hear about your straw house project. I have been very interested in straw bale buildings for some time now. I live about 3 hours south of Erie, I will be very interested in your progress. Keep us all posted about how you are coming along.
Jen Shrock wrote:I am in Crawford County NW PA too.
Just starting the journey. Been reading a lot. Starting to come up with a possible plan of attack for my semi-urban lot (.42 acres which is plenty for one person to manage). Currently taking and online course to get my PDC.
more from paul wheaton's glorious empire of web junk:
cast iron skillet
diatomaceous earth
sepp holzer
raised garden beds
raising chickens
lawn care
flea control
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When we are asked to do something for the people we love, we try our best not to dissapoint them. We go out of our way to please them, because we want them to continue to trust us and rely on us.
God wants us to trust HIM and to continue to do so. When you are trusting the Lord for something, do not doubt it for HE will come through in order to not dissapoint you and give you reasons not to trust him.
I wish you all a blessed week.


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Understanding Blogging
Compiled by Lori Harris, Medford Library
From http://www.thefreedictionary.com/BLOG
Related: blog·ger n.
From http://www.blogiversity.org/
A blog (web log) is way to express your insight on a particular topic through an on-line journal. Blogs usually consist of daily or weekly posts on either personal or professional experience and may also include links or pictures. Visitors to the blog have the opportunity to make comments and add to your topic of discussion.
From http://www.blogger.com/tour_start.g
What's a blog?
A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world.
Your blog is whatever you want it to be. There are millions of them, in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules.
In simple terms, a blog is a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. New stuff shows up at the top, so your visitors can read what's new. Then they comment on it or link to it or email you. Or not.
Since Blogger was launched, almost five years ago, blogs have reshaped the web, impacted politics, shaken up journalism, and enabled millions of people to have a voice and connect with others.
And we're pretty sure the whole deal is just getting started.
Publish your thoughts
A blog gives you your own voice on the web. It's a place to collect and share things that you find interesting— whether it's your political commentary, a personal diary, or links to web sites you want to remember.
Many people use a blog just to organize their own thoughts, while others command influential, worldwide audiences of thousands. Professional and amateur journalists use blogs to publish breaking news, while personal journalers reveal inner thoughts.
Whatever you have to say, Blogger can help you say it.
Get feedback
The blogging experience is about not only putting your thoughts on the web, but hearing back from and connecting with other like-minded folks.
Blogger Comments let readers of your site from all over the world give feedback on what you share on your blog. You can choose whether or not you want to allow comments on a post-by-post basis (and you can delete anything you don't like).
Group blogs can be excellent communication tools for small teams, families, or other groups. Give your group its own space on the web for sharing news, links, and ideas.
Blogger Profiles let you find people and blogs that share your interests. And your profile lets people find you (but only if you want to be found).
Your Blogger Profile lists your blogs, your recent posts and more. Clicking on interests or location takes you to other people's profiles, whose blogs you might enjoy.
From http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1106331-1,00.html
http://blogspot.com (AKA Blogger)
http://www.typepad.com and http://blogs.com
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Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me: Magical tribute to a legend
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me captures the magic of the legendary performer as she prepares for a new chapter in her life. This funny, touching and memorable documentary is available in selected theaters, on demand and on line. When she walks on stage, she owns every inch of the floor, each eye in ...Read More


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Is it a bad idea to disable Clam?
I actually posted about this a while ago, but wasn't able to come to a solution, so I'm sort of bringing a sledgehammer to the issue.
My Amavis keeps dying, and it's because it tries to run mail through Clam and Clam isn't running. Clam isn't running because it's dying for unknown reasons, there's nothing showing up in the logs, Freeclam is still updating the database, no system errors.
I've decided that the easiest solution to this is to just remove Clam, but I'm unsure if this is a bad idea or not. None of my clients are using the server for mail outside of script generated mail (PHP), am I fine just getting rid of Clam? What about SpamAssassin as well?
EDIT: I see a couple of other posts asking the same question, but nobody seems to get an answer... it's usually more along the lines of "ya Clam is a memory hog"
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The Law of Recipes: Are Recipes Patentable?
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One of the most common questions I receive, dating back to the very beginning of IPWatchdog.com, is whether recipes can be protected by any form of intellectual property. Typically the question presents specifically by a reader asking whether a recipe can be patented, or how once can patent a recipe.
In most cases the typical recipe for a "killer Margarita" or "the best barbeque sauce ever" will not be patentable because they won't be unique enough, typically failing on the non-obviousness requirement. Of course, the only way to know for sure is to understand how the Patent Office reaches its conclusions relating to what can and cannot be patented. It is certainly possible to obtain a patent on a recipe or food item if there is a unique aspect, perhaps if there is something counter-intuitive or a problem (such as self live or freshness) is being addressed. The trick will be identifying a uniqueness that is not something one would typically think to try.
Can a Recipe Be Patented?
Determining whether something is patentable requires analysis of several different patentability requirements:
- Is the invention patentable subject matter?
- Is the invention useful?
- Is the invention novel?
- Is the invention non-obvious?
If the answer to all of these questions is yes then you have something that can be patented, provided of course you need to describe the invention in a patent application to satisfy the disclosure and description requirements of U.S. patent law.
1. Are recipes patentable subject matter?
The section of the statute that governs patent eligibility from a subject matter standpoint is 35 U.S.C. 101, which says:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Recipes are indeed patentable subject matter and protectable either by defining a "new and useful process" or as a "composition of matter." For example, the resulting secret sauce is a composition of matter, while the steps to made the secret sauce are a process. Both can be protected (i.e., patented) if the other patentability requirements are satisfied.
2. Are recipes useful?
Virtually everything is considered "useful" within the meaning of how the patent laws use the term. So it is typically most helpful to seek understanding of what is NOT useful. Something is not useful if it does not work; it is wholly inoperative. If the invention works at all, no matter how crude, the invention is useful.
Deficiencies under the "useful invention" requirement of 35 U.S.C. 101 will typically arise in one of two Scenarios. The first is where how the invention will be used is not apparent from the description, which can occur when the patent application fails to identify any specific and substantial utility for the invention or fails to disclose enough information about the invention to make its usefulness apparent. These types of utility rejections are fairly rare though because utility does not need to be explicitly disclosed, it can be implicit or inherent in what is disclosed. The second type of deficiency arises in the rare instance where an assertion of utility for the invention made by an applicant is not credible (i.e., claiming a perpetual motion machine).
Recipes easily satisfy the utility requirement.
3. Are recipes novel?
This is where it starts to get more difficult for the individual who wants to patent a recipe, although this is not going to be the primary hurdle to patentability for a recipe.
Novelty is an issue that comes up under 35 U.S.C. 102 and, generally speaking, asks whether the invention is new. Now I am going to provide an over simplification of Section 102, but conceptually what the Patent Examiner will seek to determine is whether the invention already exists. If the invention exists in the prior art you cannot obtain a patent. Determining what is prior art unfortunately requires a Masters level understanding of patent law.
If the recipe can be found in the prior art identically you cannot obtain a patent. The word "identically" is chosen deliberately. Section 102 and novelty is about exact identity, and this is not any kind of oversimplification. If you can articulate any difference in what you claim as your invention then you have overcome a 102 rejection. This is why if you are willing to narrowly limit the definition of the claimed invention the possibility of obtaining a patent goes way up even if there is a lot of similar prior art.
Recipes can be novel, although it does frequently stretch the imagination to think that a particular recipe has never been contemplated, described, used or sold by anyone anywhere.
4. Are recipes non-obvious?
Beyond the novelty question of exact identity you must consider that what makes your invention unique and how your invention can be distinguished over the totality of the prior art. This is required because when a Patent Examiner deals with issues of obviousness (i.e., 35 U.S.C. 103) they will look at a variety of references and pull this from one and that from another, ultimately seeing if they can find all the pieces, parts and functionality of your invention in the prior art.
There is more to it than just finding every piece and part, because on some level all inventions are made up of known pieces, parts and functionality. The true inquiry is to determine whether the combination of the pieces, parts and functionality found would be considered to be within the "common sense" of one of skill in the art such that your invention is merely a trivial rearrangement of what is already known to exist.
The "common sense" test for obviousness is relatively new in legal terms, stemming from the United States Supreme Court decision in KSR v. Teleflex nearly 5 years ago. Prior to the Supreme Court's pronouncement in KSR, the obviousness test was objective. Unfortunately, now the obviousness test is subjective and much more difficult to get your arms around. What has transpired over the years since the decision in KSR is an evolving law of obviousness. If a Patent Examiner can find each and every element of your invention in the prior art you should anticipate receiving an obviousness rejection, frequently a rather conclusory obviousness rejection that identifies each element and concludes that someone of skill in the art would have known to combine the elements.It is also critical to understand that the Patent Examiner can conclude that it would have been "obvious to try" to combine the pieces and parts and, thereby render the invention obvious and unpatentable.
There are ways around such obviousness rejections, but when the invention is a recipe will the patent applicant be able to convince an Patent Examiner that it would not have been within the knowledge of someone to combine this ingredient with that ingredient? Is it really not obvious to try the combination? Likely no. That is why you absolutely need to have some peculiarity to have any hope to get your recipe or food item patented.
What kind of recipes can be patented?
One way to overcome an obviousness rejection and persuade a skeptical Patent Examiner is to demonstrate that there are certain aspects of an invention that are counter-intuitive. If you really have something that is counter-intuitive then it becomes a little disingenuous to argue that it would have been "common sense" to do this or that to result in the invention. So if you are going to try and patent a recipe ask yourself are there any process steps that are unique, even bizarre? Things that are counter-intuitive or contra-indicated can go a long way toward helping establish a patentable invention, as do solutions to vexing problems.
Here are a couple recipe related patents to give you an idea of what you might be able to protect:
Fat and egg yolk substitute – Fats and eggs produce desirable taste and sensory qualities in the baked goods, but also contribute much fat and cholesterol to the baked items. This substitute is a particular composition that is claimed to produce a desirable taste and provide desirable sensory qualities. This recipe, therefore, provides a solution to a particular problem. Notice the very specific ratios of ingredients.
Nut butter and jelly food slice – This invention includes a first and a second layer of jelly disposed in contacting relationship with each other. The first and second layers of jelly cooperate to define a hollow region therebetween. A volume of nut butter is disposed within the hollow region such that the volume of nut butter is encapsulated between the first and second layers of jelly. Notice that there is a structural component to the resulting composition and is not simply protecting peanut butter and jelly.
Process for preparing battered foods – First I want you to notice that this invention defines a commercial process, not a process that would occur in your home kitchen (at least not typically). Commercial processes for preparing foods are among those that are the most frequently patented process because there are a great many steps between making and it winding up fresh on the store shelves and ultimately in your home. The process produces a fully cooked food product coated with par-fry batter and includes the steps of: providing a quantity of raw food product; providing a conveying means to convey the raw food product through the various steps of the present invention; steam and heat-cooking the raw food product; chilling the food after the step of steam and heat-cooking, which chilling step both chills the product so that it does not continue to cook, and cools the product before it enters the following battering step; battering the food; par-frying the battered food; and lastly, and freezing the food for shipment.
Sealed crustless sandwich – This patent is a favorite of mine because on one level it covers a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. There is, of course, more. This particular peanut butter and jelly sandwich provides an outer crust which can be stored for long periods of time without the central filling leaking. The sandwich includes a lower bread portion, an upper bread portion, an upper filling and a lower filling between the lower and upper bread portions, a center filling sealed between the upper and lower fillings, and a crimped edge along an outer perimeter of the bread portions for sealing the fillings therebetween. Notice there are structural aspects to the sandwich, namely the crimped edge, and there are aspects that address sandwich leaking and storing for prolonged periods.
Process for making dough products – This invention provides a dough product which can be frozen and then unfrozen and cooked without the associated freezer taste. It is apparently quite difficult to freeze dough and then re-use it; it just doesn't seem fresh. Enter this invention, which addresses the problem. The process by which the improved dough product of the present invention is produced includes the steps of providing a dough, applying shortening flakes to at least one side of the dough, coating a light batter over the dough having the shortening flakes applied to it, heating the resulting batter-coated dough to first set the batter and then subsequently melt the flakes to form pinholes or air cells in the batter and at the surface of the dough, and then cooling the resulting product. The process is applicable to any dough product which is desired to have a light, flaky, crispy texture.
You can also always protect software and data management systems, including those that relate to recipes, such as U.S. Patent No.7,523,302, which relates to an electronic recipe management system, or U.S. Patent No. 6,975,910, which relates to managing an electronic cookbook.
I provide these examples because I want to try and make as clear as possible the fact that with recipes or food items there will need to be more than a resulting "special sauce" in order to get a patent. How did you achieve the resulting composition? Why is the resulting composition unique? Can you define the composition so narrowly such that it is both new and we can say it would not have been obvious? What particular problems (hopefully vexing problems) have you solved with your recipe? Unfortunately, most recipes are not going to be patentable, but if you do have a uniqueness or you have solved a problem (i.e., tastes great and zero calories) then you likely have something worth pursuing to at least the patent search stage.
Are you looking for an advertising boom?
One important reason to obtain a patent is for advertising purposes. Once a patent is applied for you can immediately use the coveted term "patent pending" in your advertising. If a patent issues you can also advertise "try my patented X", where represents whatever it is that you patented. The public at large knows very little about patent law, but most recognize that to get a patent means something special (i.e., that it has somehow been anointed by the federal government). If you are looking for this kind of reward from the fruits of your patent labors, then trying for a recipe patent could be well worth your time and money, particularly if you are a restaurant owner. Even if you don't necessarily think you have a good chance to ultimately get a patent filing that patent application so you can say: "try our patent pending world famous Maragritas!"
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Gene Quinn is a US Patent Attorney, law professor and the founder of IPWatchdog.com. He is also a principal lecturer in the top patent bar review course in the nation, which helps aspiring patent attorneys and patent agents prepare themselves to pass the patent bar exam. Gene started the widely popular intellectual property website IPWatchdog.com in 1999, and since that time the site has had many millions of unique visitors. Gene has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the LA Times, USA Today, CNN Money, NPR and various other newspapers and magazines worldwide. He represents individuals, small businesses and start-up corporations. As an electrical engineer with a computer engineering focus his specialty is electronic and computer devices, Internet applications, software and business methods.
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Michael Risch
February 10th, 2012 6:17 pm
There are recipes for brandy from the early 1800's…I mention them in an article I'm working on called "America's First Patents"
Gene Quinn
February 10th, 2012 6:57 pm
When you get done with the article I'd love to publish an executive summary here with link back to your longer work. That sounds like a fun, fascinating project.
Paulanne Chelf
February 11th, 2012 4:55 pm
Gene, you might have included some mention of why one obtains a patent, and what difficulties one might face in trying to enforce a recipe patent. Also, recipe patents extend far beyond food products and include things like cell culture media and pharmaceutical formulations.
T.W. Saur
February 12th, 2012 10:24 am
With all due respect, your example of the crustless peanut butter and jelly sandwich is an example of what CAN NOT be patented.
From Wikipedia:
Sealed crustless sandwichIn December 1999, two independent inventors, Len Kretchman and David Geske, were granted U.S. patent,[3] "Sealed Crustless Sandwich" for a peanut butter sandwich that would have a long shelf life. The J.M. Smucker Co. bought the patent from the inventors and developed a commercial product based on the patent called Uncrustables. Smuckers then invested US$17 million in a new factory[4] to produce the product. By 2005, sales of Uncrustables had grown to $60 million a year with a 20% per year growth rate.
Smuckers attempted to enforce their patent rights by sending out cease and desist letters to competitors, and by expanding their intellectual property coverage via the patenting of a machine to produce Uncrustables sandwiches in high volume U.S. Patent 6,874,409 "Method and apparatus for making commercial crustless sandwiches and the crustless sandwich made thereby". The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, however, rejected the viability of the patent citing its similarity to existing processes such as that of fashioning ravioli or a pie crust.[5]
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Gene Quinn
February 12th, 2012 2:18 pm
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With all due respect, this article is not intended to address what may be novel or what may be nonobvious. There was certainly something that could have been protected had the patent and claims been drafted properly in order to take into account prior art that they should have known about. Furthermore, the Wikipedia entry you cite also states that the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences overturned the patent examiner's rejections over the prior art in the reexamination proceeding, thus Smuckers did identify patent eligible material in the case, despite what you suggest. If Wikipedia is to be trusted (I haven't found the BPAI decision) the Board issued other grounds of rejection regarding vagueness, but Smuckers never responded. A vagueness rejection is rather easy to overcome. All you have to do is be more clear. Smuckers obviously didn't want to continue spending money to obtain the patent, otherwise they surely could have.
So this is really a story about needing to carefully consider the prior art and draft a patent application with the prior art in mind. It also is a cautionary tale about how narrow you will likely have to make your claims in order to obtain a patent on a recipe or food item. Finally, it is a cautionary tale about what happens when you give up and cease participating in an application even after a patentable invention has been identified. Here a patentable invention was identified but the claims were not believed to be definite. Fixing that problem would have been rather easy.
Gene Quinn
February 12th, 2012 2:20 pm
In an earlier version of the article I did mention in one paragraph the difficulty of enforcing a recipe patent, but as the article developed it started to get long. I also felt that the trouble of enforcing in this area is not peculiar to recipes and is shared with all methods. I anticipate writing an article about this issue more broadly in the coming weeks.
Michael Risch
February 17th, 2012 7:55 am
Gene – we'll see, once someone agrees to publish!
Paulanne – I mention recipes for pigment in my draft article, making the point that it's unclear why a pigment recipe should be patentable, but not an edible recipe.
May 8th, 2012 3:44 pm
Re. The marketing section. Can we print out a bunch of "Patent pending" menus during the process and continue to use them after, or do we have to destroy and reprint the menus when the patent gets rejected (on the remote possibility that our marguerita recipe isn't patentable after all…)?
Gene Quinn
May 8th, 2012 3:57 pm
You can only use "patent pending" if you actually have a patent application actually pending. If you have no patent application pending it would be a violation of fair trade practice laws to use "patent pending."
Wayne Thibeaux
August 29th, 2012 2:57 pm
I work for a quickly growing and very successful grocery company who is a HUGE player in the houston grocery market that even started dwarfing the Kroger chain. I have several recipes, which I had with me upon hire, that I created and that have been very profitable to this grocer when I make them at the deli. Recently one of the top execs came by and sampled them and he flipped out over how delicious they were and asked me and my store manager why we aren,t already increasing production on these items. They want to start the process of putting it under their own brand name by introducing them at a corporate luncheon. When I asked if I would see a piece of the pie through a promotion, raise, position change, etc. I was told no and they just want the recipes. I have even been warned that I need to hand over the recipes. How can I protect my interests in my creations. Are there lawyers out there who are willing help out us regular hardworking joe's? This means millions in sales for this company and they know it by the large loyal following of clientel it generates that only come to the store for these items and the record sales numbers the items generate.
August 21st, 2013 12:52 pm
Hi. I am interested in patenting a recipe that my mother introduced to me at child hood. The primary ingredient is yellow onions, but with the addition of sauce and spices creates a great condiment that's not in the market. I would say that the contents are all off the shelf, but the combination is what is the non-obvious. I am certain an experienced chef would be able to determine the spices, but not exact. There's also certain measurements associated with getting the recipe right. In any case, I would consider this to be a condiment and would appreciate any insight. Thank you.
September 6th, 2013 8:38 pm
I have made a special recipe for over 30 years now and do not give out the recipe because I had to "earn" it. When I was a young bride to be, my husbands grandmother made an appetizer type recipe that everyone wanted to eat but didn't know how to make. My husband-to-be loved this item and so I asked for the recipe. She told me there is no real recipe, it is in her head and if I wanted to spend time with her in the kitchen she would show me how. So I did…It took me several tries to duplicate it and she died during the process. So for years everyone expected me to bring this appetizer to functions and I did. I was asked to give it as gifts, make it for weddings, etc. I refused to give out the recipe because of the honor system in which I learned it. I also offered up the "watch me do it" but no one wanted too. I then divorced out of the family and still make this recipe just not for "them". People always tell me I should patent it…I have heard in order to do so the ingredients, calories, nutrition content etc. have to be included, along with exact measurements etc…I am thinking about maybe trying to do this but was not sure if it was possible. I did a web search on the item and found no other one like it…I did find many appetizers in that category, but nothing at all similar. The thing is, it is very simple only 5 ingredients…I am not sure how to go about the process.
brendon fernandez
November 22nd, 2013 7:56 am
Please Call me at 808-557-5486 due to a very. Important. Reciepe i was instersted in patening.Thank. U ver much
Gene Quinn
November 22nd, 2013 4:09 pm
Recipes are patentable subject matter, but they are virtually never patentable because of obviousness. If you have some kind of industrial process associated with the recipe that could be protected if it is new and non-obvious, but in my experience a listing of ingredients is not going to be able to be patented.
January 23rd, 2014 11:02 am
I am currently working on my master thesis which subject is comparing polish and american regulations concerning culinary recipe. In Poland obtaining a patent on recipe is impossible, so I got really interested in your article. Firstly, I though of writing my thesi mostly about copyright law and tradesecret, but it would be far more interesting if I could mention patents as well. My question is how can I find any literature on a subject? I am afraid that all my bibliography will sources from the Internet and I would prefer not to upset my conservative profesors. If you could suggest me anything I would be more than happy. Thank you so much for your article it was a really inspirational read that will help me proceed with my job!
Sincerely, Joanna Bak
Mark Nowotarski
March 7th, 2014 3:39 pm
I once had the pleasure of visiting Frito Lays' corporate headquarters. They had an entire two story wall covered with the patents they've received on their recipes. Any time you see a new snack food in the store? Chances are it's patented.


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Pascal Bodjona, a Togo government spokesman, reacted angrily to the ruling by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), describing it as 'insulting'.
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Togo withdrew from Africa's premier football competition after the team bus was attacked by gunmen in the northern enclave of Cabinda.
An assistant coach and a media officer with the Togo team died in the ambush as the team travelled from Pointe Noire, Congo to the Angolan capital by bus for their opening match on January 8, two days before the start of the tournament.
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"Mr Hayatou did serve Africa but today, he must clear off. This decision is monstrous," Adebayor told French sports daily L'Equipe.
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"They're laughing in everybody's face. (Togo President Faure Gnassingbe) sent us to the (African Cup) to defend the colours of our nation.
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"If (Cameroon keeper Idriss Carlos) Kameni was the one having been shot or if it was the Ivory Coast team bus that had been attacked, the Nations Cup would have been cancelled."
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Both WNV and EEE are caused by viruses transmitted by mosquitoes, and both may cause encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain. EEE kills about 90 percent of horses that it strikes, and WNV kills in more than a third of all equine cases. Symptoms are similar for both diseases: depression, appetite loss, drooping eyelids and lower lip, fever, weakness, twitching, paralysis or lack of coordination, aimless wandering, circling and blindness.
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Besides vaccination, Ehlenfeldt recommends taking other steps to limit horses' exposure to mosquitoes:
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(Minneapolis, MN, April 25, 2007) - Digi International® Inc. (NASDAQ: DGII) reported revenue of $42.9 million for the second quarter of 2007 compared with $34.4 million for the second quarter of 2006, an increase of $8.5 million, or 24.7%. Other financial highlights for the quarter include:
- Operating income and net income increased by 46.8% and 40.1%, respectively, over the second quarter of 2006.
- Revenue growth of 24.7% consisted of organic revenue growth of 10% and revenue growth from MaxStream, acquired in July 2006, of 14.7%.
- Digi met its quarterly revenue and earnings per share guidance. The business outlook for the year has improved, and Digi has increased its revenue and earnings per share guidance for the remainder of fiscal 2007.
Revenue from embedded products in the second quarter of 2007 was $18.4 million, an increase of $5.3 million, or 40.7%, compared to the second quarter of 2006. Revenue from non-embedded products was $24.5 million in the second quarter of 2007, an increase of $3.2 million, or 14.8%, compared to the second quarter of 2006. MaxStream contributed $5.0 million in revenue for the second quarter of 2007.
Gross profit margin in the second quarter of 2007 was 52.5% compared with 53.3% during the same quarter of fiscal 2006. The decrease in gross profit margin was due to lower sales of higher gross profit margin mature products and other product mix changes within both the embedded and non-embedded product categories. Gross profit margin includes the amortization of identifiable intangibles for purchased and core technology, shown separately on our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.
Operating expenses as a percent of net sales decreased by 2.5 percentage points in the second quarter of 2007 compared with the second quarter of 2006 as Digi continues to focus on controlling expenses while increasing revenue. Total operating expenses in the second quarter of 2007 were $17.8 million, or 41.5% of revenue, compared with $15.1 million, or 44.0% of revenue, in the second quarter of 2006. The increase in operating expenses is attributable to the inclusion of operating expenses pertaining to MaxStream and variable compensation expenses related to the increase in revenue.
Operating income increased by 46.8% in the second quarter of 2007 compared to the same quarter of 2006. Operating income was $4.7 million, or 11.0% of net sales, in the second quarter of 2007, compared with $3.2 million, or 9.3% of net sales, in the second quarter of 2006.
Net income was $3.6 million in the second quarter of 2007, or $0.14 per diluted share, compared with $2.6 million in the second quarter of 2006, or $0.11 per diluted share, or an increase of 40.1%.
For the six months ended March 31, 2007, Digi reported revenue of $84.7 million compared to revenue of $67.8 million for the six months ended March 31, 2006, or an increase of 25.0%. For the six months ended March 31, 2007, Digi reported net income of $7.4 million, or $0.28 per diluted share, compared to net income for the six months ended March 31, 2006, of $4.8 million, or $0.20 per diluted share, an increase of 56%.
Digi's cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities balance at the end of the second quarter of 2007 was $69.9 million, an increase of $11.0 million over the cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities balance at the end of fiscal 2006. Digi's current ratio is 5.5 to 1, and the Company has no debt other than insignificant amounts of capital lease obligations.
"I am pleased with our financial results, particularly our strong profitability, for the first half of 2007," said Joe Dunsmore, Digi's Chief Executive Officer.
Second Quarter 2007 Business Highlights:
- Digi extended its family of cellular routers with a UMTS/HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) version of its ConnectPort WAN VPN. This product leverages the latest high speed enhancements in carrier networks based on GSM technology, and is already certified by AT&T/Cingular. Also in the quarter a CDMA technology version of the product was certified by Sprint.
- Digi increased its access to embedded markets by rolling out a new approach to ARM embedded development. Digi JumpStart Kits™ are sub $500 development kits that get design engineers started in developing complex NetOS, Linux and WinCE based embedded products within 30 minutes.
- Digi expanded its strong embedded development relationship with Microsoft and became the first company to offer a Windows® Embedded CE 6.0 board support package (BSP) for ARM processors and wireless networking. Windows Embedded CE 6.0 is the latest version of the Windows CE embedded operating system. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Digi is one of the Microsoft Business Partners who receives the highest level of customer endorsement.
- Digi launched the Rabbit Wireless Control Application Kit for remote monitoring and control, continuing a strong push into wireless solutions. This is the second Rabbit branded Application Kit containing both MaxStream and Rabbit technology.
- Digi introduced the RCM4200 RabbitCore module, equipped with 10/100 Ethernet connectivity, GPIO with on-board analog input, and serial flash memory. This announcement expanded to seven the family of RabbitCore modules based on the Rabbit 4000, the newest Rabbit microprocessor.
Third Quarter 2007 Guidance
For the third quarter of 2007, Digi expects revenue to be in the range of $41 million to $46 million. Digi expects third quarter 2007 earnings per diluted share to be in the range of $0.13 to $0.19.
Improved Full Year Business Outlook
For the full fiscal year, Digi has increased its forecasted revenue to be in the range of $170 million to $180 million, or an increase over fiscal 2006 revenue of 18% to 24%. Digi has also increased its earnings per diluted share outlook to the range of $0.56 to $0.68, or an increase over fiscal 2006 earnings per diluted share of 35% to 48%.
Second Quarter 2007 Conference Call Details
Digi invites all those interested in hearing management's discussion of its quarter, on Wednesday, April 25 at 5:00 p.m. EDT (4:00 p.m. CT), to join the call by dialing (888) 343-2180. International participants may access the call by dialing (212) 676-5250. A replay will be available two hours after the completion of the call for one week following the call by dialing (800) 633-8284 for domestic participants or (402) 977-9140 for international participants and entering access code 21334914 when prompted. Participants may also access a live webcast of the conference call through the investor relations section of Digi's website, www.digi.com.
About Digi International
Digi International, based in Minneapolis, is the leader in device networking for business. Digi develops reliable products and technologies that enable companies to connect and securely manage local or remote electronic devices over the network or via the web.
Forward-looking Statements
This press release contains statements that constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "anticipate," "believe," "target," "estimate," "may," "will," "expect," "plan," "project," "should," or "continue" or the negative thereof or other variations thereon or similar terminology. Such statements are based on information available to management as of the time of such statements and relate to, among other things, expectations of the business environment in which the Company operates, projections of future performance, perceived opportunities in the market and statements regarding the Company's mission and vision. Such statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including risks related to the highly competitive market in which the Company operates, rapid changes in technologies that may displace products sold by the Company, declining prices of networking products, the Company's reliance on distributors, delays in the Company's product development efforts, uncertainty in consumer acceptance of the Company's products, and changes in the Company's level of revenue or profitability. These and other risks, uncertainties and assumptions identified from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including without limitation, its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2006 and its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, could cause the Company's future results to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements made by or on behalf of the Company. Many of such factors are beyond the Company's ability to control or predict. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made. The Company disclaims any intent or obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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Investor Contacts:
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Digi International
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Quick pushing work down and then say thank you. You really do t understand the impact to morale.
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