{"id":1428,"date":"2023-04-14T20:41:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T20:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2023-04-14T20:42:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T20:42:22","slug":"patented-cereal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/?p=1428","title":{"rendered":"Patented Cereal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Kellogg Company is one the top breakfast cereal companies in the World with over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/companies\/kellogg\/?sh=75b57f6e6de2\">$14 billion<\/a> in revenue last year, and as the recipient of several annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kelloggcompany.com\/en_US\/about-kellogg-company\/awards-and-recognition.html\">awards and recognitions<\/a>.\u00a0 Did all of this success start with a patent over 120 years ago?  Perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>On April 14, 1896, John Harvey Kellogg received a patent (<a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US558393A\/en?oq=us558%2c393\">US558,393<\/a>) for a cereal commonly known today as KELLOGG&#8217;S CORN FLAKES. The patent is titled &#8220;Flaked Cereal and Process of Preparing Same,&#8221; and claims a process that involves soaking, heating, drying, rolling and baking a grain to create flaked cereal.\u00a0 The text of the patent claims are shown below:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-medium wp-image-1429\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 1px;\" src=\"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Kellogg_patent-300x226.png\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Kellogg_patent-300x226.png\" alt=\"kellogg cereal patent\" width=\"550\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Kellogg_patent-200x151.png 200w, https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Kellogg_patent-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Kellogg_patent-400x301.png 400w, https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Kellogg_patent.png 543w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For more information about our firm, please visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/?page_id=1079\">About page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Kellogg Company is one the top breakfast cereal companies in the World with over $14 billion in revenue last year, and as the recipient of several annual awards and recognitions.\u00a0 Did all of this success start with a patent over 120 years ago? 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