Summary: <p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Tony Mata is a meat inventor; his job is figuring out new things to do with meat. He thinks he recently discovered a new steak — a novel way to cut up a chunk of beef that's currently not worth much. Mata is so excited about his discovery that he's trying to patent it.</p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">This raises a basic question: Can you patent a steak?</p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">On today's show, we talk to Mata. We visit the workshop of Gene Gagliardi, the inventor of Steak-Umm and KFC's popcorn chicken. And we try to figure out what meat inventors tell us about patents and innovation.</p>
