US Energy Initiatives Corp (USEI)

[thebaseballdoctor]

Well, I am a fairly inexperienced investor...just learning like you and others.

My background is in Professional Baseball, and Research and Development in baseball and other related areas.

I do have several granted patents, so I am a bit familiar with the importance of patent protection.

I have been unable to alert others, as you well know.

About USEI...it is a sister company in related fields of interest. I am still trying to do some DD on USEI, but my initial response is that they compliment each other as ERBB can use USEI as they are making, marketing, and selling edibles. They also have done a deal to acquire 2 stores, both in the state of Washington, all of which would lend itself to fitting in with what ERBB wants to do with edibles, stores and doctors offices and dispensaries, etc.

The picture above is USEI’s Colorado kitchen to make edibles which include: cookies and cupcakes, etc.
Which will have this logo… This is in the future tense, which tells me that they are/were gearing up to make edibles in their own kitchen, which would mean that they would need some form of distributing and selling their cookies and cupcakes, which would be logical to own some stores. This also would be feasible for USEI to have far greater distribution potential, which is one major reason why cutting a deal with ERBB would open up major distribution doorways for them, capable of providing far-reaching financial benefits beyond what they presently have.

USEI already has a deal structured with a company wherein they get 40% of the product sales, so I do not know how this would help or interfere with a deal to distribute the ERBB vape pipes.

USEI has a machine to make extracts, that could be used for a variety of reasons. This could be applied in the recreational areas, and the medicinal areas, which also will fit into the business plan of ERBB as they will have a distribution network, and a desire to put them into the machines, etc.

USEI already has a patent biodesel patent ( U.S. patent # 0126790, so they will welcome proproetary protection from ERBB that certainly will bolster their bottom line. Patent protection is a huge thing, and can be used in all their marketing and promotional things as they seek to improve their visibility and market share.

If the following statement is true, then, this falls in line with the ERBB business plan… According to Anthony Miller, CEO, "We have extensive relationships with legal growers, dispensaries, product developers, marketers, patent holders and other professionals in this industry; and we believe that it is necessary that we develop these relationships and opportunities. The Medical Marijuana industry is growing at an extremely rapid rate and this emerging growth industry seems to have growth potential that will continue to grow for years to come. As other states legalize the use and sale of products and services for this industry, we plan to find our niche and opportunities. Management thinks this is just sound business for USEI. Our goal is strategically plan to make our Cannabis subsidiary as a very lucrative division of USEI and develop our own proprietary products and services."

And, if this is indeed the business plan for USEI, then the growing, the hydroponics, the Jurassic Water System of ERBB, the Zazzz machines around the world, will be needed to expand many phases of their business plan, and their growing business. So, ERBB has the growth components to energize USEI and bring in more revenue…and investors, which will increase PPS, etc…

USEI also is entering into the MJ industry, and the Hemp business, as well, which has so many different applications for business growth that it is phenominal for USEI…and for ERBB.

Anthony Miller, the CEO, has some baggage, it appears. This can be a concern until he proves himself.

About having your own kitchen and making your own edibles, there are too many legal regulations to adhere to, especially in an upstart MJ industry. Why not contract/vend out the manufacturing, packaging, shipping of USEI’s products to an existing bakery in business that already has jumped through the regulations hoops, and pay them to make the products for USEI. Less headaches, less employees to pay in salary and benefits, etc. Companies do this all the time. Just like they have working agreements with stores in Washington, so can they have contractual agreements with a bakery/bakaries to make their edible products.


http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,711,465.PN.&OS=PN/6,711,465&RS=PN/6,711,465

This very first sentence of the patent says it all…”Vending machine having a biometric verification system for authorizing the sales of regulated products.” THIS MEANS ABSOLUTE, COMPLETE PROPRIETARY RIGHTS FOR ALL SALES OF REGULATED PRODUCTS. I read this to mean that if anyone that tries to sell regulated products such as Marijuana, or other types of governmentally regulated products, or methods of dispersion, will infringement of the patent rights that ERBB just purchased from the holder of the patent. Anyone that wants to sell regulated products, such as MJ edibles, medicinals, etc., will have to seek specific licensing agreements with AG.

Also, it is important to note that these patents are international, and AG controls all rights in the world for dispersion of any kind of regulated products such as MJ. This could open up the door for major investment capital for AG.
This is a game changer, as something as powerful as proprietary patent rights increases the worth, and respectability of AG.

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to vending machines that sell products directly to the public. More particularly, the present invention relates to vending machines having identification verification capabilities to ensure that the person buying a product from the vending machine is legally allowed to make the purchase. NOTE: This might be why Shearin has been dragging his feet with the roll out of the machines, which might have been a major disaster had he gone ahead and infringed upon Tomassi’s patent. He had the cart ahead of the horse for a while, but now appears to have it legally right.

What is claimed is: (This is the meat and potatoes of the patent..)

1. A method of permitting only authorized users to use an automated vending machine, comprising the steps of: providing each of the authorized users with an identification card that contains age data and fingerprint data of the authorized user; providing a vending machine having an identification card reading device and a finger print scanner, wherein said vending machine vends an age restricted product selected from a group consisting of cigarettes and alcoholic beverages; reading said age data and said fingerprint data from an identification card inserted into said identification card reading device in said vending machine by a potential user; scanning an actual fingerprint from the potential user using finger print scanner; comparing scanned actual fingerprint of the potential user to said fingerprint data contained on said identification card; enabling the vending machine if said scanned actual fingerprint of the potential user matches said fingerprint data contained on said identification card and if said age data contained on said identification card indicates that the potential user is older than some predetermined minimum age.

2. The method according to claim 1, further including the step of providing the vending machine with a money validation system for receiving and validating money from the potential user.

3. The method according to claim 2, further including the step of enabling the vending machine only after the potential user has deposited a predetermined fee into said money validation system.

4. A method of permitting only authorized users to use an automated vending machine that vends an age restricted product, comprising the steps of: providing each of the authorized users with an identification card that contains age data and hand data of the authorized user; providing a vending machine that vends an age restricted product selected from a group consisting of cigarettes and alcoholic beverages, wherein said vending machines has an identification card reading device and a hand scanner; reading said age data and said hand data from an identification card inserted into said identification card reading device in said vending machine by a potential user; scanning an actual hand characteristic from the potential user using said hand scanner; comparing the scanned hand characteristic of the potential user to said hand data contained on said identification card; enabling the vending machine if said scanned hand characteristic of the potential user matches said hand data contained on said identification card and if said age data contained on said identification card indicates that the potential user is older than some predetermined minimum age.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein said hand scanner is selected from a group consisting of palm scanners, fingerprint scanners and knuckle scanners.

6. A method of permitting only authorized users to use an automated vending machine that vends an age restricted product, comprising the steps of: providing each of the authorized users with an identification card that contains age data and retina data of that authorized user; providing a vending machine that vends an age restricted product selected from a group consisting of cigarettes and alcoholic beverages, wherein said vending machine has an identification card reading device and a retina scanner; reading said age data and said retina data from an identification card inserted into said identification card reading device in said vending machine by a potential user; scanning an actual retina from the potential user, using said retina scanner; comparing the scanned actual retina of the potential user to said retina data contained on said identification card; enabling the vending machine if said scanned actual retina of the potential user matches said retina data contained on said identification card and if said age data contained on said identification card indicates that the potential user is older than some predetermined minimum age.

7. A method of permitting only authorized users to use an automated vending machine that vends an age restricted product, comprising the steps of: providing each of the authorized users with an identification card that contains age data and voice pattern data of that authorized user; providing a vending machine that vends an age restricted product selected from a group consisting of cigarettes and alcoholic beverages, wherein said vending machine has an identification card reading device and a voice pattern scanner; reading said age data and said voice pattern data from an identification card inserted into said identification card reading device in said vending machine by a potential user; scanning an actual voice pattern from the potential user, using said voice pattern scanner; comparing the scanned actual voice pattern of the potential user to said voice pattern data contained on said identification card; enabling the vending machine if said scanned actual voice pattern of the potential user matches said voice pattern data contained on said identification card and if said age data contained on said identification card indicates that the potential user is older than some predetermined minimum age.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention is a vending machine system and its associated method of operation. In the vending machine system, customers are provided with identification cards. The identification cards can be driver's licenses, bankcards or a specialty vending card. On the identification card is statistical information regarding the age of the card owner. Also contained on the card is data corresponding to a biometric characteristic of the card owner.

Vending machines are provided that contain card readers and biometric characteristic verifiers. When a customer wants to use the vending machine, that customer inserts their identification card into the vending machine. That customer also subjects themselves to a biometric scan from the biometric characteristic verifier contained within the vending machine.

The vending machine reads both the statistical age information from the identification card and the biometric characteristic data. A systems processor in the vending machine compares the biometric characteristic data on the identification card with the biometric characteristic data just gathered by the biometric scan of the customer. If the data matches, it can be assumed that the owner of the identification card is using the identification card. If the identification card then indicates that the customer is old enough to purchase a regulated product, the vending machine is enabled and a regulated product can be sold from the vending machine.

AG patents and a few preliminary search that I did…

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,493,190.PN.&OS=PN/7,493,190&RS=PN/7,493,190

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&f=S&l=50&d=PTXT&RS=%28%28%28%28vending+AND+machine%29+AND+biometric%29+AND+regulated%29+AND+products%29&Refine=Refine+Search&Refine=Refine+Search&Query=vending+and+machines+and+maryjuana (NO patents containing these 3 words)

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&f=S&l=50&d=PTXT&RS=%28%28%28%28vending+AND+machine%29+AND+biometric%29+AND+regulated%29+AND+products%29&Refine=Refine+Search&Refine=Refine+Search&Query=vending+and+machines+and+biometric+and+maryjuana (NO patents)

I found NO combinations of words, so, from a preliminary search the patent rights are strong…and can be made stronger with the incorporation of marijuana and related types of products into a new patent application, or an addendum addition to the present ones…which I would recommend to the management.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&f=S&l=50&d=PTXT&Query=vending+and+machines+and+medical+and+maryjuana (NO patents)


Mr. Tomassi’s patents, numbered 6,711,465 and 7,493,190

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