> I take it I could *patent* a recipe as a process, if I could prove it
> was new and nonobvious?
True. 35 USC 101. If patented, by the way, it COULD be freely copied -- the patent document that is. But it would infringe the patent to make the dish according to the patented process.
Anticipating a question about copying patent documents, it's generally OK because it's a government document, and more fundamentally because the patent system is premised on contributing to the knowledge of (men,women, the world, whatever) through publication of the inventions of others.
-Micah Stolowitz
<micah[_at_]techlaw.com>
Received on Thu Nov 30 1995 - 17:30:18 GMT
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