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by thombat 2243 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maytag_Blue_cheese

Complete with patent-dickery:

"During the Second World War, [the] university patented the homogenisation of cheese milk and attempted to have charges levied on Danish cheese produced using homogenised milk. Their attempts failed, as it could be proved that this method had been introduced 20 years earlier in Denmark by Marius Boe."