{"id":5546,"date":"2026-09-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5546"},"modified":"2026-09-26T20:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T01:30:17","slug":"september-27-2026-patent-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5546","title":{"rendered":"September 27, 2026, Patent of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On September 27, 1966, U.S. Patent No. D205876 issued to James S. Merritt, on a Frozen Confection:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-28.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"583\" height=\"851\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-28.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-28.png 583w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-28-206x300-1.png 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The patent, which was assigned to the James S. Merritt Company of Kansas City, covered the popular BOMB POP.  The BOMB POP name was registered December 12, 1972 (Reg. No. 948643).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-27.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-27-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-27-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-27-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-27-300x300-1.png 300w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-27-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-27-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-27-2048x2048.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Merrit eventually registered the configuration of the BOMB POP with the red, white, and blue coloring as a trademark in 1976 (Reg. No. 1039931), and the configuration irrespective of the coloring in 1979 (Reg. No. 1127938). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 27, 1966, U.S. Patent No. D205876 issued to James S. Merritt, on a Frozen Confection: The patent, which was assigned to the James S. Merritt Company of Kansas City, covered the popular BOMB POP. The BOMB POP name &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5546\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patent-of-the-day"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5549,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546\/revisions\/5549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}