Is Whoopee Cushion Trademarked?

Well, that is what likely happened with the Whoopee Cushion. As iconic as it may be today, no successful patents or trademarks were ever filed, resulting in the Whoopee Cushion product to be used by all, and the name to be used without fear of trademark infringement.

Why are they called whoopie cushions?

JEM used these monikers until finally going with whoopee cushions in 1932. (Whoopee is a word dating back to the 1860s that means "an exclamation of exuberant joy"; by the 1920s, the word also meant "exuberant or boisterous merry-making.") For the record, Adams marketed his as “razzberry cushions.”

Who made whoopie cushion?

The modern rubber version was invented in the 1920s by the JEM Rubber Co. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, by employees who were experimenting with scrap sheets of rubber. The company's owner approached Samuel Sorenson Adams, inventor of numerous practical jokes and owner of S.S.