{"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? Perhaps. On April 14, 1896, John Harvey Kellogg received a  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31],"tags":[32,34],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-this-day","category-patents","tag-patent","tag-patents"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Kellogg-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Kellogg-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Benjamin M. Hanrahan","author_link":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlflegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}