The Children's Beverage Group, Inc. U.S. Patent Application Title: 'Self- Contained
Fluid Dispensing System' Application no.: 09/005,627 Is Granted and Issued
April 21, 1999 03:16 PM
NORTHBROOK, Ill., April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- In a communication mailed April 14,
1999, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office advised that the application seeking the
grant of a utility patent for the Company's invention, "Self- Contained Fluid Dispensing
System" has been examined and is allowed for the issuance as a patent. Specifically, the
patent will issue for a self- supporting, vertically stable package including flexible side
walls suitable for holding a fluid, a supporting structure providing vertical support to the
package, and a dispensing tube positioned within the package such that the tube can
slide through an aperture within the upper margin of the package as needed for drinking
or other dispensing of the fluid from the package. By law, the patent has a term
beginning on the date on which the patent issues and ending twenty (20) years from the
date on which the application for the patent was filed in the United States. (i.e., until
early January 2018)
Jon Darmstadter President & CEO of The Children's Beverage Group, Inc. TCBG
states, "We are ecstatic about the issuance of the utility patent which validates our claim
and position of bringing not only an exceptional product to the market, but also an
exclusive product. The Children's Beverage Group's 'rip it sip it' no spill pouch, based
on current sell-through at the retail level has exceeded not only our retail partners
expectations, but more importantly the consumers. We have truly built a better
mousetrap and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office agrees."
The Children's Beverage Group, Inc. is a unique beverage company directed at the
billion dollar plus children's beverage market. The company's mission and goal has been
to create cutting edge products using the latest in packaging technology. It features a
patented, "Self-Contained Fluid Dispensing System known in the trade as the 'rip it sip
it'(TM) system. The company's products are being marketed by national retailers like
Wal*Mart(R) and Winn Dixie. The company has been featured on the nationally
broadcast television program "Emerging Public Companies... the Story Behind the
Symbol."
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