Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

The inventors and/or owners of Halo vacuum and their UV technologies get a second chance, at Oreck of all places.  Oreck is the assignee on U.S. patent app. #20090000056.

DIB

Our U.S. government makes viewing U.S. patents online difficult by using the Tiff image format (by design?).  By contrast the European patent office uses the common pdf format and is easy to view for most (below).

U.S. patent applications:
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=GARCIA%3B+Ken&FIELD1=IN&co1=AND&TERM2=&FIELD2=&d=PG01


Europe patent applications:
http://v3.espacenet.com/searchResults?locale=en_EP&IN=Garcia%3B+Carrie&ST=advanced&compact=false&DB=EPODOC

Claims describing why a UV inside a brushroll:
http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/claims?CC=US&NR=2008061252A1&KC=A1&FT=D&date=20080313&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP

Hello DIB:

Nice!  Do you know the business terms of the assignment?  Outright purchase of the rights?  Share of ORECK sales/profits on the sale of all vacuums equipped with the UV-C light.  Combination of both?   Wonder if ORECK will pick up the warranty/support on the halo vacuums as a condition of the assignment.  Do you know?

Appears the legal action for the assignment was done in August 2008, about the time that posters here were eulogizing the end of halo. 

Carmine D.

Ace,

Check out my above post (the start of this thread).        DIB