> My conversation with the investor relations person this morning
> clarified some things. They have concept and utility patents as
> well as manufacturing patents.
That is perfectly ordinary in the patent business. In almost any patent, the inventor claims 1) the invention, 2) a way of making the invention, and 3) a way of using the invention.
> The technology is simple, but I guess they have gone through "h"
> getting the manufactuing process right.
That's the impression I got from Rick Kaiser as well. I haven't yet received the AirBox from them, but I've gotten the impression that they have been particularly single-minded in their pursuit of this packaging system. Perhaps to the point of ignoring easier/cheaper ways of meeting the same goals. It's really a "B" trying to thermobond nylon to polyethylene, they found a way, but it might have been much easier to bond polyethylene and Tyvek, since Tyvek is a special kind of polyethylene.
Before I "speculate" much more, I should talk to some of their "technical" people. Note that I mean both of those quoted terms in their conventional vernacular meanings!
-bob mackey
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