You cannot patent a naturally occurring plant species and actually, for that matter, you can't even patent an artificially bred plant variety.
Yes, a food product and/ or its recipe can be patented.
Here are ten examples of historical food patents that, while perhaps strange at first glance, have fun backstories. A 'Stable and Compatible Peanut Butter-Jelly Product' ... Spaghetti Was a Pain for Campbell Soup. Colonel Sanders Pressurizes Fried Chickens. Korean Stretchy Cheese. Momofuku Ando's Ramen Noodle 'Lumps'
For example, the laws of nature, physical phenomena, and abstract ideas cannot be patented, nor can only an idea or suggestion. Other restrictions include the patenting of inventions exclusively related to nuclear material or atomic energy in an atomic weapon (see MPEP 2104.01).
In his book, Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership, author Lewis Hyde explains that Franklin believed that any claim to own his ideas and inventions could only lead to the kind of disputes that “sour one's Temper and disturb one's Quiet.” It was for that reason, Franklin never took a patent or registered a ...
Yes, You Can Patent Food Products! Companies in the food and beverage industry might overlook significant advantages by not patenting their innovations. While there's a common belief that “recipes” cannot be patented, unique formulations and other aspects of food and beverage products often can be.
Pre-sliced packaged bread is normal bread. It is what you would use to make sandwiches and toast, the most common usage of bread in a home.
Bread Trivia (You never know when it might come in yeastful!) Queen Elizabeth II was born in 1926… making her officially older than sliced bread.
However, the first record of the idiom is thought to be in 1952, where the famous comedian Red Skelton said in an interview with the Salisbury Times: "Don't worry about television. It's the greatest thing since sliced bread".
Rohwedder filed the first-ever patents on the mechanisms he created to slice and package bread. The jeweller from Missouri invented a machine with a conveyor belt and of a series of uniform cutting bands that would slice an entire loaf of bread in a single operation and then promptly and efficiently package the loaf.