Fruition granted patent on box-support design
August 21, 2007
OXFORD, Miss. — Design company Fruition LLC has been issued a utility patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a pizza box lid-support called FUNstax.
A utility patent protects new inventions or functional improvements on existing inventions for 20 years from the filed patent-application date.
One variation of the FUNstax support, which can include promotional advertising, is it breaks apart into a football and goal post. The pizza box or pizza flyer can have a football field printed on it in order to make a game for customers to play.
Other box-support designs include break-off collectable jewelry, pendants, golf tees, race cars, DVD holders, toys, spice shakers and sauce cups.