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Patent for a term like 'body butter?'?

Would it be reasonable to believe that someone actually does own a patent on a term like 'body butter?' They cite a patent number but I am unable to find it in the US patent office database that other yahoo answerers were kind enough to direct me to. What do you think? BS or just too complex to locate?
Thanks.
Edit: LOL I guess it says a lot that the person claiming to have this "patent" on body butter doesn't know that it would actually be a trademark, not a patent. Some people will try anything I suppose.

"Terms" are not subject to patent. You're thinking trademarks. I would begin my search at the US Patent and Trademark Office.

http://www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm

What Is a Patent?

A patent for an invention is the grant of a property right to the inventor, issued by the Patent and Trademark Office. The term of a new patent is 20 years from the date on which the application for the patent was filed in the United States or, in special cases, from the date an earlier related application was filed, subject to the payment of maintenance fees. US patent grants are effective only within the US, US territories, and US possessions.

The right conferred by the patent grant is, in the language of the statute and of the grant itself, “the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling” the invention in the United States or “importing” the invention into the United States. What is granted is not the right to make, use, offer for sale, sell or import, but the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, selling or importing the invention.

What Is a Trademark or Servicemark?

A trademark is a word, name, symbol or device which is used in trade with goods to indicate the source of the goods and to distinguish them from the goods of others. A servicemark is the same as a trademark except that it identifies and distinguishes the source of a service rather than a product. The terms "trademark" and "mark" are commonly used to refer to both trademarks and servicemarks.

Trademark rights may be used to prevent others from using a confusingly similar mark, but not to prevent others from making the same goods or from selling the same goods or services under a clearly different mark. Trademarks which are used in interstate or foreign commerce may be registered with the Patent and Trademark Office. The registration procedure for trademarks and general information concerning trademarks is described in a separate pamphlet entitled "Basic Facts about Trademarks".

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/doc/general/whatis.htm

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