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...wasn't the spider that scared Miss Muffet--it was that stuff in her bowl. White, clumpy, sour, often runny, yogurt did not inspire children to plead with their mothers at the supermarket. Nor did it get much closer to American mouths than arm's length, from which those mothers could read the list of ingredients to be reminded that yogurt is animated by at least two types of live bacteria: Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus. Pudding, anyone? Aisle...
...wasn't so long ago when a boy who liked a girl had two choices. He could bowl up to her at school and try to talk with her, eventually asking her out. Or he could attempt the even more daring move of calling her at home. This carried the dual risks of speaking to one of her parents and, worse, when he identified himself to the girl, hearing a confused and faintly irritated...
...Some of Cereality's patent claims may be valid," says Kenneth Rader, 24, CEO of the Cereal Bowl, "but others are ridiculous." Rader acknowledges that it would be unfair for others to copy Cereality's method of serving cereal in Chinese-food containers, but he draws the line at Cereality's attempt to lay sole claim to the idea of mixing brand-name-candy toppings with cereal...
Roth says that Cereality, which is nearing national expansion and has 46 employees, is in a different league from the Cereal Bowl, a small shop run by recent business school graduates. He welcomes healthy competition, though. "We're happy to see competitors show up to serve cereal away from home, because it adds legitimacy to the idea," he says. But when others imitate Cereality's slogans or serving buckets, Roth says his responsibility to investors requires him to fight back. And any company that files a patent application, Roth notes, is obligated by law to inform potential rivals...
...that Roth and Bacher say they have received more than 6,000 applications from all over the world. In April, Roth and Bacher began meeting with applicants to select the first operators, and they hope to have 30 new partners by 2008, with each running several restaurants. The Cereal Bowl, for its part, says it has collected 250 e-mail inquiries about franchising...