Coffee Cache » Patents http://coffeecache.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:30:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Are You Using Knock-Off K-Cup Technology? http://coffeecache.com/2009/12/are-you-using-knock-off-k-cup-technology/ http://coffeecache.com/2009/12/are-you-using-knock-off-k-cup-technology/#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:42:25 +0000 Geoffrey http://coffeecache.com/?p=518 The single-serving coffee maker has to rank fairly high on the list of office engineering marvels. After all, who doesn’t feel better knowing that a cup of Joe is just 30 seconds away when they’re working late on a project? It might be a little watery, but it works in a pinch.


According to lawsuit recently filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, however, one particularly well known purveyor of single-serving technology is having trouble getting their innovations recognized by the government. Reading, Mass.-based Keurig, Inc. filed suit on Dec. 11 against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, claiming officials there had wrongly rejected a patent application on the company’s K-Cup coffee filter cartridges.

Read the full article, “A Fight Brews Over Coffee Making Technology “. Posted 12/18/09.

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