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No patent for Dippin' Dots

A bowl of Dippin Dots with a spoon in it.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.

[Via Franchise Pundit]

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