As a fan of good food and wine, I have considered from time to time starting a second blog on those interests, rarely finding opportunity for overlap with the IP topics normally addressed here.  And so I took considerable pleasure today from my Saturday Wall Street Journal, which offered a tasty marriage of IP rights, exotic recipes and fine restaurants in Katy McLaughlin's article:

"That Melon Tenderloin Looks Awfully Familiar . . . Chefs say copycats are ripping them off--so some are fighting back with secrecy, lawyers; a patent for the noodles."

Ms. McLaughlin reports on the efforts to such famed food fora as ...   more »