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As a good friend of mine would say: well, see what happened was...That's what the owners of the patent for cryogenically probably wanted to say when a court ruling invalidated their patent. Turns out that to get a patent, you have to disclose prior sales, which is part of the reason that they lost it. The makers of Dippin' Dots sold a similar product to over 800 customers a year before they applied for the patent.
Dippin' Dots lost its patent in 2007, and it has two main rivals (even though I've never heard of wither one): MiniMelts and MolliCoolz.
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5-28-2008 @11:26AM Christopher Finke said... There's another competitor that is being sold in grocery stores, but I can't recall the name. It's definitely not as good; the dots kind of clump up into chewy ice cream when you eat them instead of melting like Dippin Dots.
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5-28-2008 @11:29AM NIghtfall said... I had never heard of them before I moved to Wisconsin. You can get them all over the place here. The real Dippin' Dots are by for the superior product.
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5-28-2008 @11:47AM Fofio! said... MolliCoolz is sold in the supermarket. Comes in an extra-heavy box (for insulation) and has a freezer pack in the box so you can get them home without them "becoming one". Needs a very cold freezer either way. Not quite as good as DD's, but you can't bring DD's home without a dry-ice cooler!
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5-28-2008 @12:49PM Jonathan said... I loved those things, but the only places I knew to get them were at the theme park I worked at and at a vending machine at the movie theatre - really expensive at both places. It had to be kept at a ridiculously low temperature, so they didn't carry it at grocery stores.
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7-14-2008 @6:38PM PR Guy said... One correction on the original story...about 800 cups of ice cream were sold prior to Curt applying for the patent (not "800 per year" which could be any number). His attorney,and he were under the impression that these 800 or so servings could be done for research and development. They were sold at various prices, in various size cups, and in various flavors.
So you're right, that's exactly how the story begins..."...you see what happened was...". Loved that line! Thanks to everyone who eats Dippin'Dots...we appreciate you!
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