* Illustration by John Tenniel, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, of Alice swimming in the pool of tears

Cookies

Greg Whitehead @grwster 20200928043247000

Browser cookies patented by Netscape in 1996, acquired by AOL in 2010, spun out to NEW AURORA CORP in 2012, acquired by Facebook in 2014, expired in 2015. https://patents.google.com/patent/US5774670A/en

Greg Whitehead @grwster 20200928043248000

More here https://www.jwz.org/blog/tag/brand-necrophilia+nscp/ (@jwz)

Greg Whitehead @grwster 20200928221339000

In a weird coincidence, here's a totally different cookie patent, the doughy kind, that was assigned to a similarly named holding company AURORA FOODS ;-) https://patents.google.com/patent/US4455333A/en