Question: What is the difference between your Mangosteen Elixir and Xango, which claims to have a patent on the fruit and the pericap?
Thank you
Richard Main
Answer: Richard,
Please read these posts (follow the link) and see if they help to answer your questions. If you have a specific question afterwards, e-mail me back.
Sincerely,
Marcus Ettinger DC, BSc.
P.S. For kicks, e-mail Xango and ask them to send you a copy or a link to “their” patent. IMPORTANT NOTE: Make sure you have a cushy chair, the last two years of National Geographic and Mad Magazine, and a stock pile of food because you may have a bit of a wait.
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Sorry but you shouldn’t be saying that there is no patent here you have it.
Xango
US patent number 6,730,333
The following information can be found in United States Patent and Trademark Office
http://www.uspto.gov/
XANGO PATENT INVALID IN U.S. PATENT OFFICE FINAL ACTION
April 2005. The U.S. Patent Office issued its final written opinion rejecting all 81 claims in XanGo’s Patent No 6,730,333. This action was taken despite multiple meetings with XanGo’s in-house patent expert Steven Bean, it’s outside patent law firm and the review of over thirty pages of memoranda and supporting affidavits filed by XanGo LLC, a Lehi, UT company. Specifically, a panel of three expert U.S. Patent Officers, consisting of the primary examiner, a supervisor patent examiner and a special program examiner, found that every one of XanGo’s 81 claims were unpatentable. The Patent Office’s rationale was concise – basically that there is nothing novel or patentable in adding several fruit juices together. The Patent Office also rejected XanGo’s claim that they were the first to introduce mangosteen juice into the market, specifically concluding: “Thus, the rejection [of the entire patent] is proper.
THIS ACTION IS FINAL.” You may review the entirety of the rulings by going to the office government Patent Application Information Retrieval System at http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair. After this site comes up, enter application No. 90/007,178, and click on the image “file wrapper tab”, which will reveal an index of the document history. Afterward, click on Reexam Final Rejection – 4/21/2005.
As of 4/15/2009, all Xango appeals on this matter have been denied. In a last ditch effort to claim sole planetary legal rights for claiming Mangosteen as their own, they are taking their road show to the United States Supreme Court. I can’t wait for the spanking they are going to get for bringing them such a trivial case.