Nestle Sues Wysong for Having Prior Art

Today's douchbaggery award goes to the Nestle corporation. Several years ago, a small company called Wysong, based in Midland, Michigan, figured out a way to infuse probiotics into pet food. Several companies followed suit until 1999 when Nestle's Purina somehow managed to obtain a patent on the process. Now Purina is suing Wysong for continuing to sell something that they invented 15 years prior Purina's patent. This is nothing more than a case of corporate legal bullying. Let's hope that Wysong survives this fight with the Nestle Douchebag lawyers. This case represents all that is wrong in the U.S. patent system.

Honorable mention goes to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for their lackadaisical search for prior art when they so douchbagfully granted the patent to Purina.