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Patent Attorney Review of Trampoline System
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Patent Attorney Review of Trampoline System

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Patent Attorney Review of Trampoline System

U.S. Patent 9,956,449 As a Fort Lauderdale Patent Attorney, this is an interesting recently issued patent. This trampoline system appears to includes platforms and padded surface members. It is not entirely clear the purpose of the platforms. For example, are the users to just off of it? It simply isn't clear. As a patent lawyer, it would be interesting for me to learn and understand the purpose of the platform members which are not clearly defined or explained in the patent. It does appear that the inventor sells trampoline systems, including trampoline parks and trampoline wrestling rings. Thus, is seems reasonable that the platforms are for more extreme trampoline parks. On May 1, 2018, Week 18, Number 1450-1, the United States Patent and Trademark Office published issued U.S. Patent Number 9,956,449. The patent describes a patent directed to trampoline systems. The trampoline system provides at least one trampoline jumping surface with each trampoline jumping surface that has at least one surface edge that faces a platform. Figure 1 describes that the detection unit for mailboxes comprises a mailbox; a detection means provided inside the mailbox to detect the presence of mail; and a warning device operatively connected to the said detection means to inform a user of the presence of mail in the said mailbox. One of the sensors appears to use a commonly used reed contact magnetic sensor. Claim 1 provides: A trampoline system comprising: two adjacent trampoline jumping surfaces with each trampoline jumping surface comprising a surface edge that faces a corresponding surface edge of an adjacent trampoline jumping surface; one or plural vertically-extending frame members, each of said one or plural vertically-extending frame members extending (i) between said surface edge and said [...]

Patent Attorney Review of Systems, devices, and methods for monitoring medical devices
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Patent Attorney Review of Systems, devices, and methods for monitoring medical devices

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Patent Attorney Review of Systems, devices, and methods for monitoring medical devices

U.S. Patent 9,949,642 The patent drafted by a patent attorney appears to be related to a detection and monitoring system particularly for diabetics and related glucose levels. This patent appears to check whether a diabetic’s glucose levels are within a clinically safe range. This will in turn provide information to a diabetic for determining when to raise or reduce glucose levels. The patent holder sought an “improved” analyte monitoring system, device, and method. The patent on its face appears to be owned by Abbot that has a number of Diabette products, including the freestyle libre, navigator, optium/precision neo, lite, freedome lite, and insulinx to name a few. Abbott strongly defends its intellectual property having won an appeal back in 2011 years ago for 1.67 Billion dollars. A patent infringement attorney can review the patent to determine the strength of a given case. On April 24, 2018, Week 17, Number 1449-4, the United States Patent and Trademark Office published issued U.S. Patent Number 9,949,642. The patent describes a relay device is used to provide a communication link between a medical device, such as an analyte sensor control device, and a reader device, such as a mobile communication device or smartphone. The medical device can be placed in a continuous mode in which the medical device communicates with the relay device at a predetermined periodic time interval, or in an on-demand mode in which the medical device communicates with the relay device upon actuation by the user. In some embodiments, the relay device communicates with the medical device using a near field communication (NFC) communication protocol, and with the reader device using a Bluetooth protocol. In certain embodiments, the timing of the communication between the medical device [...]

Patent Attorney Review of Method for Determining Target of Alcohol Test
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Patent Attorney Review of Method for Determining Target of Alcohol Test

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Patent Attorney Review of Method for Determining Target of Alcohol Test

U.S. Patent 9,949,682 This invention appears to be directed to safe driving and more particularly to prevent a previous drunk driver from operating his or her motor vehicle and causing an accident. Drunk driving can cause injuries necessitating a car accident attorney. On April 24, 2018, Week 17, Number 1449-4, the United States Patent and Trademark Office published issued U.S. Patent Number 9,949,682. The patent describes a method for determining a target of alcohol test, including: determining whether a motor vehicle satisfies a preset condition; and determining, as a target vehicle, a motor vehicle that satisfies at least one preset condition. The preset condition includes at least one of the following conditions: Condition 1, a parking duration in an area, in which a distance from a place selling alcoholic drinks does not exceed a predetermined distance, has a value within a predetermined range; Condition 2, alcohol content in a body of a driver of the motor vehicle exceeds a predetermined value; and Condition 3, schedule of a driver of the motor vehicle on that driving day includes having a meal and/or a dinner party. Figure 1 describes that: when a vehicle is started again after being parked over a period of time, whether a period of time during which the driver has left the vehicle is within a predetermined range (i.e., whether the period of time is within 0.5 hour to 6 hours is determined. When the result from the determination is “YES”, the information on the vehicle is transmitted to the server, and the server determines whether there is a place selling alcohol drinks such as a restaurant or a pub within a predetermined distance (e.g., 100 meters) from the position of the motor [...]

Patent Attorney Review of Helmet Impact Monitoring System
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Patent Attorney Review of Helmet Impact Monitoring System

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Patent Attorney Review of Helmet Impact Monitoring System

With all of the concussions in the football sphere, there is a lot of innovation across a number of fields with respect to safety, and particularly brain safety. The patent reviewed today is just another step towards making the game of football safer. As both a registered patent attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and a former NFL sports agent, I find this type of innovation particularly interesting. What is smart about this invention is the used of a smart view to instantly view the impact statistics. This a great innovation that allows individual users the ability to review head injuries, or allow a coach or trainer on the sideline to review head hits during and after a practice. On April 17, 2018, Week 16, Number 1449-3, the United States Patent and Trademark Office published issued U.S. Patent Number 9,943,128. The patent describes an impact monitoring systems for a football helmet that includes impact sensors on flexible substrates. The patent attorney for the applicant appears to have directed the invention towards a flexible substrate including the impact sensor can be coupled with a wearable article of protective equipment and can wirelessly communicate with a computing device, such as a smartphone or the like. Figures 1-4 describes an impact sensing system. The Impact sensing system provides for a first impact sensor with a dielectric layer of flexible, dielectric material. Impact sensor has a first printed electrode and second printed electrode a second surface of dielectric layer so as to overlie and be moveable toward and away from the first electrode by deformation of the dielectric layer. The claims appear to range from broad to narrow. The first independent claim provides: An impact sensing [...]

Patent Attorney Review of Water Pipe Bowl Assembly
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Patent Attorney Review of Water Pipe Bowl Assembly

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Patent Attorney Review of Water Pipe Bowl Assembly

Patent Attorney Review of U.S. Patent 9,930,911 Tucker Law has long discussed patents related to marijuana. For example, one can obtain a patent on a marijuana plant, but not on a product solely directed to an illegal use, such as smoking marijuana. Nevertheless, most marijuana related patents can be used for things other than an illegal purpose. This is the case of Patent Number 9,930,911. In reality, nobody smokes cigarettes out of a water bong; instead water bongs are the product of choose for inhaling a large amount of weed. On April 3, 2018, Week 14, Number 1449-1, the United States Patent and Trademark Office published issued U.S. Patent Number 9,930,911. The patent describes, inter alia: According to the principle of the invention, in a water pipe including a water container coupled between a drawtube and a smoke inlet tube, improvements therein include a bowl assembly including a hollow adapter and a hollow bowl fixture. The hollow adapter has a first section connected to the smoke inlet tube and an opposed second section, and a bowl support extends radially outward from hollow adapter between the first and second sections. The second section includes an inner end near the bowl support, a closed outer end, and an opening through second section between the inner end and the closed outer end. The hollow bowl fixture is positioned on the bowl support and over the second section. The hollow bowl fixture includes a continuous sidewall that extends from an inwardly-directed upper flange encircling the closed outer end of the second section on an outer side of the opening to an inwardly-directed lower flange encircling the inner end of the second section on an inner side of the opening, [...]