I don't see the division of blankets with armholes being settled in my lifetime.
But it turns out that the Snuggie is actually the imitator.
The Slanket, another blanket with sleeves, predates the Snuggie by more than two years.
Advertising doesn't sell the steak, it sells the sizzle, and that's exactly what snuggie did. If you think that poorly produced commercials of shut-ins watching TV with a backwards robe is sizzle. But they did something right to move four million of those things. So what's the creator of the slanket to do?
Mr. Clegg said he would not pursue legal action against Snuggie because when he approached patent lawyers while developing the Slanket, he was told a design patent for it would not be feasible.
This is the things our courts need to be deciding. But let's not forget about the freedom blanket. And then there's this. This parody says what we're all thinking: