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Two ingredients?

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

IPBiz noted the following description of a "two ingredient" recipe on Hungry Girl:

Ingredients:
One box devil's food cake mix (about 18 ounces)
One 15-ounce can pure pumpkin

Sadly, this "advance" reminds one of a lot of the "innovation" in the IT industry.

In terms of an anticipation of "Hungry Girl", note Allie on pinchmysalt:

Ok, so it isn?t exactly homemade, but my mother has made some amazing pumpkin chocolate muffins for years just using devils food mix and pumpkin. Nothing else, just the box with pumpkin, don?t add the oil or the eggs or anything, but cook it according to the box.
Super-moist, super-chocolatey, and super-low in calories.
2:16 am Nov 6th, 2007

In terms of other "prior art" to Hungry Girl, note for example Steph2003'sTriple Chunk Pumpkin Brownies:

1/2 can pumpkin (not the pie filling) about 1.75 cups

1 Box Betty Crocker Triple Chunk Brownie Mix

Of the IT industry, IPBiz notes that a lot of their problems stem from a pronounced failure to write things down.

See for example, Lawrence B. Ebert, "Patent Reform 2005: Sound and Fury Signifying What?", New Jersey Law Journal, July 18, 2005 (available LEXIS).

Full post as published by IPBiz on March 30, 2008 (boomark / email).