Medical and Dental Device Patenting Blog : Medical and Dental Patent Lawyer & Attorrney : John Rizvi : Gold & Rizvi Law Firm : Florida, Serving Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa, Florida

 As a Fort Lauderdale Patent Attorney, I have been fortunate enough to practice within a stone's throw of the annual meeting location one of the most exciting and interesting expositions on medical and dental innovations in the united States, namely,  the Florida International Medical Exposition or FIME for short.    

 

If you are a medical or dental device innovator, this is one tradeshow you DO NOT want to miss.  It will take place from August 12 - 15, 2009, at the Miami Beach Convention Center.  With over 20,000 professionals from the industry in attendance, you will be in very good company.

 

 If you do attend, please join me on Thursday, August 13, 2009, at the Florida International Medical Exposition where I will deliver a presentation entitled:

 

                   Preservation of Legal Rights in Medical Innovations

Thursday, August 13, 2009, 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Miami Beach Convention Center

 

More information about FIME 2009 is available at www.fimeshow.com with a full schedule of seminars and educational presentations at www.edufime.com.

 

 

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Although my practice is national in scope, I take particular interest in Florida's medical and dental patenting landscape.  Recently, I ran across an article regarding Accubreak Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ABP) of Plantation, Florida that caught my interest.

Accubreak Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ABP) will action six medical patent applications through IPAuctions, Inc. according to an article on www.auctioninfo.org on June 13, 2009. 

Accubread Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has a number of Florida medical patents developed at their headquarters in South Florida directed towards the creation of tablets that can be easily divided by hand into exact smally doses for tablet splitting.  The complete article is available here.

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       As a Florida Patent Attorney, I track the news relevant to innovators in the medical field and post them here in my blog. Rather than straight reporting, one of the things I do is to give you insights you can use in your own innovations. For instance, today I read that the U.S. Patent Office has issued a patent for Hythiam Inc.'s PROMETA® alcohol and chemical dependence treatment program. I'll give you the scoop on what their patent covers, but I'll also point out the larger health trends the patent links to with the aim of spurring on your own ideation development.

       First, the scoop.

       According to an article at PharmaLive.com (Business Wire, LA, January 10, 2008) PROMETA® is a patented treatment program designed for healthcare providers with patients dependent on alcohol, cocaine, and methamphetamine independently or in combination. It's a holistic treatment program that incorporates nutritional supplements, psychosocial/other therapies chosen by the patient and her treatment provider, and FDA-approved medication given orally and intravenously, which are "separately administered in a unique dosing algorithm."

        As with any treatment program, PROMETA® was developed with the goal of "sustained recovery," What makes it patentable is partly the specifics of the integrated approach and partly the integration itself, which comes at alcohol and chemical addiction from disparate perspectives: the psychology of the individual on his own and in regard to his social environment, his physical health and potentially associated nutritional deficiencies, and a medical/pharmacological perspective.

       And, herein lies the insight.

       This treatment program fuses three macro cultural trends: 1.) An increasing emphasis on the mind-body connection; 2.) an underlying belief that no one perspective is universally "right;" and 3.) a belief that success with patients is borne partly in their own sense of responsibility and involvement.

         Interest in the mind-body connection in particular is a trend that has continued to grow over the last several years, and you can see this in patented products in virtually every category, including fitness, publishing, alternative health practices, the expansion of nutraceuticals into even our soda, etc.

        So, looking at the innovation you're currently or considering working on: Do any of these trends factor in? Could/should they? Or, is there another macro trend evident in your design? Honing in on a trend at play in the larger culture is a way of sharpening your idea and its development. I'm always looking for ways larger cultural trends impact and push forward innovation and would love to help keep the good ideas going with patents and trademarks that protect original, ingenious thinking.

        Contact me if you have an idea you'd like to protect - (866) 433-2288.

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The Florida Biomedical Research Programs website reports in a press release that some good news for heart patients may be just around the corner.

In the case of a heart attack, a few minutes can spell the difference between life and death. Now, a new medical device can be produced that can cut minutes or even hours off the time it takes to begin life-saving treatment. The Florida Department of Health has announced the award of a James & Esther King Biomedical Research Program grant of $99,942 to help fund the development of a device that will allow for rapid detection of heart attack in patients who experience chest pain or other symptoms commonly associated with this condition.

 When a person suffers a heart attack, certain proteins are released into the bloodstream at elevated levels. The new device, which is under a U.S. patent, will use magnet technology to separate these "cardiac markers" out of a small blood sample, allowing for much quicker measurements than was previously available.

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As a Florida patent attorney with an interest in medical and dental device patents, I try to keep an ear to the ground on new patenting and industry developments in Florida that are relevant to my practice of intellectual property law.  The potential increase in Florida's medical patent and dental patenting activity is one such development.

In a recent post in the BioHealth Investor, Florida is touted as one of the country’s next biotech hubs. According to the article, it all began when the Scripps Research Institute accepted a proposal for $500 million in financing to establish a biotech research hub in the state on the western fringes of Palm Beach County. 

Although Scripps has focused a lot of attention on Florida's life science industry, there is much to Florida's medical and dental manufacturing industry that is unrelated to Scripps.

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Hats off to Philippa Kennealy, M.D., of The Entrepreneural MD blog for pointing out a patented system and method of reducing medical malpractice claims developed by neurosurgeon Jeffrey Segal, M.D., founder of Medical Justice.  Results of the patented technology are already in for Florida physicians according to the blog posting:

The results speak for themselves - 10 to 15% of Florida physicians are sued each year. Conversely, less than 2% of Medical Justice's 300-plus Florida members are sued. As a result, both the Florida Medical Association and the Florida Neurological Society have endorsed Medical Justice.

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As a Florida patent attorney, I try to keep an ear to the ground on new developments in Florida that are relevant to my practice of intellectual property in the state.  The potential increase in Florida's biotech patenting activity is one such development.

In a recent post in the BioHealth Investor, Florida is touted as one of the country’s next biotech hubs. According to the article, it all began when the Scripps Research Institute accepted a proposal for $500 million in financing to establish a biotech research hub in the state on the western fringes of Palm Beach County.

After encountering some problems with environmental groups, Scripps made a decision to move their research center to Jupiter, Florida just north of West Palm Beach, Florida, one of Florida Atlantic University’s campuses. 

Several other research centers have followed including the Torrey Pines Inititute for Molecular Studies, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, SRI International, and the University of Miami.

According to the article, there are a number of research institutes, life science companies, Florida intellectual property law firms, and venture capital groups waiting for a piece of the pie.  "This much money tends to attract more bees", states the article.

From a Florida patent attorney perspective, the more technology companies that move to the state the better. 

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As a Fort Lauderdale patent attorney, I closely follow patenting news relating to the medical device industry as we have several clients in this technology group.  Of particular interest is new patent infringment cases filed and their successful resolutions.  In this regard, I recently came across a press release by Ft. Lauderdale diabetes testing equipment and supply manufacturer, Home Diagnostics, Inc. regarding a summary judgment in their favor for non-infringement of patents held by Roche Diagnostics Corporation.

The case was filed in the United States District Court, Southern District of Indiana and a link to the full press release by the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida company's website can be accessed by clicking here.

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