
"a bird trap and cat feeder for catching birds and feeding the birds to a cat. The trap designed to catch birds the size of a sparrow while releasing smaller song birds, wrens, swallows, or the like. The feeder providing means for continuously supplying a cat or neighborhood cats with sparrows to eat".The IPKat is most gratified, but notes with disappointment that the claimed device does not appear to have been put into manufacture.


Right: Coke scientists whispering about their latest formulae in case they should be overheard ...
Michelle particularly notes the following:

"The judge felt the beverage felony was so serious that he ignored the sentencing guidelines and imposed an eight-year custodial sentence for Williams and a five-year jail term for Dimson. This is the kind of offence that cannot be tolerated in our society,” said J. Owen Forrester, US District Judge. “I can’t think of another case in 25 years that there’s been so much obstruction of justice.”What caught the Kat's eye was the bottom line:
"Coca-Cola thanked Pepsi for its help. The company said that its secret formula, containing the ingredient “7X”, was never at risk".Above, left: a volunteer tests a prototype of Coca-Cola's new bottle-opener
How good to know that 7X was never at risk. Now we can all sleep at night (unless 7X is the bit with caffeine, in which case none of us will sleep at night ...). You've missed the point again, says Merpel: in Europe, the Commission would probably launch an investigation into the collusion of Coke and Pepsi and demand the open licensing of the secret formula in line with essential facility doctrine.

Left: gratitude - with Katitude (textile cat from www.asianaccents.net)
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