Comments on United States Patent Assignment Details

Patent Background

Cellulite removal methods using herbs and their principle ingredients are often patented. The patent was awarded on January 13, 2009, to a company by the name of Indena S.p.A. of Milan, Italy.

Patent Claims for Each Component

Since the patent holder, Indena, is not a retail company, you will not find products on the shelf with their brand.

Plenty of excellent information is available on the real science behind natural cellulite remedies.

Natural Cellulite Remedies - Ingredients in US Patent 7,476,392

Comments on United States Patent Assignment InformationThe text below is a copy of an email that I sent the Patent Interference User's Group (PIUG) on November 4, 2003, regarding United States Patent Assignment Information. Someone fills out an "Issue Fee Transmittal form" for an allowed patent application. The name shown as the assignee on an issued U.S. patent is not conclusive evidence that an assignment exists, and it is not conclusive evidence that the entity listed as the assignee is, even at the time of issuance of the patent, the owner of the patent. The assignment database generated by the USPTO shows the information the person filing a copy of the executed assignment writes on the "RECORDATION FORM COVER SHEET." The USPTO's assignment database does not include the actual assignment document. Thus, the USPTO's assignment database and all databases derived from that database only reflect the information copied onto the recordation sheet. The USPTO stores image copies of the actual assignment documents on micro fiche available at the USPTO, indexed by reel/frame. You can identify allegedly assigned patents by searching the assignment database, and then pull up the ACTUAL assignment documents by the reel/frame associated with each patent number.

That assignment document would not result in a valid assignment, and B would not have valid title to the patent.