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Patented Invention Cures Florida Girl’s Hiccup Spree
A 15 year old girl Florida girl, Jennifer Mee, told the Today Show that a patented invention by individual inventor Phil Ehlinger helped cure her marathon 5 week hiccup spree according to an article on PhillyBurbs.com. See the appearance on ABC News by the inventor as he describes his patented device. The inventor’s wife flew to Florida and hand-delivered the device, which is covered by a U.S. patent, to jennifer Mee and instructed her on how to use the device. Complete media coverage of the product can be found on the website created by the inventor for his company, The Hic-Cup Ltd, and includes national media. Coverage of the patented device has also been extensive in Florida based local media including CBS Chanel 4 (Miami / Ft. Lauderdale), Fox News Channel 29, and other S
UVSolutions’ Catheter Site Disinfection System Obtains Medical Equipment Patent
UVSolutions‘ catheter site disinfection system acquired a medical equipment patent recently. This system gives safe and effective protection keep patients free from infection, as reported in an article in www.send2press.com. The product developed by UVSolutions is a novel system that significantly reduces colonization of microorganisms around the catheter site and comes as a relief to catheter site infections that are the most commonly acquired infections. Infections of this type are known to affect one out of twenty patients and are responsible for more deaths than the combination of accidents and homicides. The disinfection system consists of a battery operated, palm-sized, germicidal ultraviolet device, which is placed over the catheter site and expels a single flash of UVC light thr
Medical Equipment Patenting By LCD In Hospital Patient Rooms
Medical equipment patenting by LCD technology is moving into hospital patient rooms. According to an article in www.send2press.com, Paradigm Multimedia is now providing various screen size options to beat out competitive models that have inherent limitations. Before the offering of the new product from Paradigm, which is a patented tuner interface box (HT22E), the hospitals were mainly limited to a 20-inch LCD TV. With the invention of the new product, hospitals are now able to select an LCD monitor of any size for controlling the television functions, making use of a standard hospital pillow speaker. With the HT22E, Paradigm is now offering a low price and superior quality consumer LCD that provides entertainment satisfaction and also meets the health care LCD TV standards. The technology works by a signal from a satelli
United States Patent & Trademark Office May Limit Continuing Applications
On January 3, 2006, the United States Patent & Trademark Office said it may limit the ability of a company to file continuing applications that allow it to revise or modify its existing patent claims, according to an article at MSNBC.com. The reasoning behind this new rule concerns the growing backlog of patent applications that are waiting to be reviewed by patent examiner’s at the United States Patent & Trademark Office. Those opposed to these new limitations warn that biotechnology companies in particular rely on continuing applications for products than can take more than a decade to reach the market, and limiting these would curtail competition and the number of claims that could be made, resulting in overbroad and insufficiently protected patents. This would have a dir
Inventor in St. Petersburg, Florida Sues U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
A Florida inventor and holder of two patents is suing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Again. Inventor, David W.R. Brown, of St. Petersburg, Florida, holds two U.S. Patents and is seeking a refund of the $969 he was charged for records he requested under the Freedom of Information Act. According to an article in the St. Petersburg Times, this is the sixth time he has sued the U.S. Patent Office for a number of alleged violations that he claims stack the patenting deck in favor of large corporations and hurt small companies and individual inventors. The complete St. Petersburg Times’ article goes into the basis of the latest lawsuit as well as previous outcomes and makes for very interesting reading. Well, at least to most patent attorneys anyway.