Cronuts - interested?

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Sho'Nuff

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They sell for $5 at the shop at get marked up like crazy on NY craigslist.

And your point is? The fact that the product is sold to the public does not mean that there is no IP in the manner in which it is made.

Case in point - Coca Cola. One of the most popular drinks of all time. Sold all over the world. Recipe protected by trade secret.
 

zinfamous

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One of them I saw had Bavarian cream in the middle, sort of like a Boston cream.

That would be kind of awesome...or if the pastry was sweet, like a breakfast pastry instead of an actual croissant.


sounds like a toaster stroodle.

we already have those.

:colbert:
 

Newbian

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And your point is? The fact that the product is sold to the public does not mean that there is no IP in the manner in which it is made.

Case in point - Coca Cola. One of the most popular drinks of all time. Sold all over the world. Recipe protected by trade secret.

Yes the recipe is protected because it is a secret only but people still make clones of it and as long as they don't call it by the same thing, and even that is bs in this case as he used parts of two commonly used words, they are fine to make them.
 

Sho'Nuff

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Yes the recipe is protected because it is a secret only but people still make clones of it and as long as they don't call it by the same thing, and even that is bs in this case as he used parts of two commonly used words, they are fine to make them.

If what you are trying to say is that he does not have a patent on the recipe or method of manufacture and thus can't exclude others from making, using selling, etc. copies, you may or may not be right. If he filed for trademark protection then he very may well have filed for patent protection.

As to your point re: cronuts being a combination of croissant and donut . . . it is possible that his trademark registration will be rejected because it is "merely descriptive" of the subject matter. More likly it will be rejected because it is somewhat descriptive and has not yet acquired sufficient distinctiveness to serve as a indicator of source (the core function of trademark).
 

EliteRetard

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Frying pastry dough is not easy. At least not if you want it to hold together.

I actually have a machine here that can "fry" just about anything...including pastries.
Its basically a high temp conveyor oven (up to 600) system with oil spray (up to 450).
That's why he uses grapeseed oil, refined it can have smoke point over 450 (typical is ~420).

You want hard, try frying a cake.
I've just about got that figured out...
Need to retain moisture during cooking but allow oil to drain off.
So far it's kind of like a softer bigger biscotti, but I want it to fluff up more like a real cake.
 
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