GREAT NEWS! ORALBOT PATENT GRANTED

The Oralbot patent has been "pending" since it was applied for on October 8, 1999. We are delighted to announce that the patent has now been granted and will issue in September of 2000. Here are the details. A patent is generally comprised of the following:

1. An abstract, which is a brief description of the invention. It appears on the cover sheet of the patent document.

2. A write-up of the background of the field of the invention, including associated problems that may provide a basis for inventing the device that is the subject of the invention.

3. A full description of the invention.

4. A detailed set of drawings with reference numbers that correlate with the written description.

5. The patent claims, which are a series of numbered paragraphs, each claiming an originally invented concept relating to the device.

An average patent application has approximately 15 claims. The Patent Office generally issues it’s initial response within 12 months of the application date. Most often, that response will either reject all claims, or alow a few claims and reject the rest. The rejected claims are usually re-written or otherwise modified, and upon re-presentation to the Patent Office, some additional claims may be allowed. On average, about half of the originally requested claims are actually granted.

In the case of Oralbot, we submitted 29 claims. We received the initial Patent Office response on June 19, 2000. We are proud to announce that all 29 claims have been approved without a single objection. This is unprecedented, and a good indication that our patent is very clean, and nothing even remotely similar exists as a potential competitive product.