It has been a long road for McDonald’s ice cream machines, and it hasn’t always been sweet. But now, the story of the eternally broken McDonald’s ice cream machine finally has a happy ending. You see, ...

A new exemption to an old law will allow third-party companies to fix McDonald’s infamous ice cream machines. Customers and McDonald’s franchise owners have long complained about their inability to ...

It may soon get quicker and easier to get your McFlurry fix — and McDonald’s franchisees won’t have to break the law to make it happen. The US Copyright Office ...

Forget the McNuggets and the Big Mac for a second, because it's time to wax poetic about the unsung hero of the Golden Arches: ice cream. Some form of this frozen dessert has been featured on the menu ...

An exemption to a longstanding copyright act allows industrial equipment to be fixed by people not affiliated with the manufacturer. By Hank Sanders McDonald’s ice cream machines, frequently the ...

McDonald’s often maligned, seemingly perennially-broken ice cream machines could soon become a thing of the past. On Oct. 25, the United States Copyright Office ...

McDonald’s soft-serve ice cream tastes good, but as patrons of the fast food chain know, the cold sweet treat is not available almost most of the time because the machines that make them are always ...

Every few weeks, usually at night, I have a sudden craving for vanilla soft serve from McDonald’s. But just as I start to fantasize about the immaculate, snow-white swirl, I remember the futility of ...