patently ridiculous

Business Method Patents

Only in America would you find a Cereal Bar.
A place you can go to eat cereal.
Go wild, mix your cereals together.
It would appear these are generally located in college towns.
But it gets better.
One of these cereal bars has applied for business method patents on the complex business area of “displaying and mixing competitively branded food products”.

Free Culture are organising against this patent and business method patents in general.