American Green Inc (ERBB)

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Great news, johnnyg, about the patent acquisition…this could be extremely profitable for AG…potential hundreds of millions of dollars for the company…even billions with the right kind of marketing and licensing…

From my limited legal background, it definitely appears that MDBX could be deliberately infringing on the Tomassi patents. The below provides more in depth analysis of the 3 patent comparisons:

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=105461719

As I see it, the filing date is the most critical date when applying for patent coverage.

Patent #6,711,465 was filed on 1-7-02 and granted on 3-23-04
Patent #7,493,190 was filed on 1-26-04 and granted on 2-17-09
It is important to note that it took 5 years before this patent was granted. One would expect for the patent to take only a couple of years to survive legal scrutiny. Mr Tomassi was a brilliant man, as he filed the basic patent application, AND, he then, it appears, drug out the patent process, which anyone can do by filing amendments, knowing they will be flagged and sent back to him for correction and/or clarification.

IMHO, Mr Tomassi deliberately waited for the MJ industry, the medical data to support MJ, the citizens to vote to make it legal, the legislators to allow it, and the governmental regulations to be written to stipulate how it should be administered, etc.

The man is truly a visionary…the father of this method of application… to come to the forefront, and catch up with his genius patent application.

Now, depending on whether the patents are 14 year, or 17 year patents,

Stephen has locked up patent protection that began in the first patent on 1-7-02…which was later continued into patent #7,493,190, which was applied for on 1-26-04.

The patent application is the critical date for verification that someone was the first with the idea – the granted patent continues that protection for the duration of the product, etc. So, if an inventor can drag a product out for 5 years during the process, while he is making and selling the product, he has successfully added another 5 years to the life of the patent.

MDBX patent #7,844,363 was filed on 12-4-07 and was granted on 11-30-10…both dates occurred after the Tomassi patents. Now, MDBX will probably claim, legally, that their patent was granted after the Tomassi/AG patents, and, therefore, has narrow, limited access to the industry. This is not true.

ERBB, and Stephen/AG should allow MDBX, and as many other companies that markets and sells products through the same manner to go ahead and violate the patent rights of AG, making lots of money…AND THEN FILE PATENT INFRINGEMENT CLAIMS.

The MDBX is a very weak patent that claims to do one thing, with their lock box type application, but they also want the customers to believe that their machines will sell MJ products…even though they make disclaimers contrary to the truth…GOTCHA…

If I were ERBB, I would have a team of people actively identifying those companies desiring to get into this aspect of the business, and aggressively marketing licensing opportunities for them…

Never underestimate those companies and/or others that have great financial incentives to destroy ERBB through whatever means that they can…because…if ERBB goes out of business…the patents are NO GOOD…or they can be purchased from the original patentee, who probably has return stipulations in the exclusive agreement with ERBB… Just some thoughts…and JMHO, of course, FWIW…

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