Comments on: Pearl of Great Price: Now You’re Cooking with IP!

By: Blawg Review #115 | Nearly Legal

Blawg Review #115 | Nearly Legal — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:20:57 +0000

[...] and Certa.ie try to digest the news. In the US, a rival restaurant is sued for breach of IP, Concurring Opinions and Madisonian net get stuck in. Whilst on IP, the music industry continues to be troubled. In the [...]

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:07:33 +0000

New York restaurants always seem to be getting into these IP lawsuits regarding recipes; before Pearl’s Oyster Bar, there was the cupcake showdown, where Magnolia Bakery spawned Buttercup Bakery spawned Little Cupcake, all of which used the exact same recipe. For New Yorkers, of course, the more the better–if the line is too long at Pearl’s Oyster Bar or Magnolia, you can go to Buttercup or Mary’s Fish Camp.

By: David

David — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:08:53 +0000

Didn’t she defeat her own argument by admitting that her mother took the salad recipie from some guy in LA? It’s not even her own recipie. If the argument is just that she popularized it, doesn’t McDonald’s have a similar claim on the hamburger?

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:38:38 +0000

Here’s the link — http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=963474

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:21:02 +0000

Here’s a link to an article on ssrn that discusses whether recipes should receive copyright protection.