Weight Watchers Secrets - Patents

US Patents by Weight Watchers International

Patents are PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.

Part of the idea of a patent is that the concept is fully disclosed for
evaluation, but the discloser has the legal right to be the only
commercial user of the concept for the duration of the patent period.
The price of this right of protection is full and complete disclosure
(public disclosure in the records of the US Patent and Trademark Office).

It is fun to tell some weight watcher's members that you know these
"secrets". They don't believe you.

Weight Watchers International attempts to convince the public that the
details of the patent are "secrets".

Process for controlling body weight

Assignee: Weight Watchers International (Woodbury, NY)

Patent Numbers :
6040531
6436036
6878885

Search patents by Patent Numbers: (fill in number & click on "search"
button)

http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm


Links to the above 3 patent numbers. Because of the length of the links,
use of the above patent number search page may be easier for you. You
could also do a patent search where the search is on the assignee as
"Weight Watchers International" (without the " ")

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...&RS=PN/6040531
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...&RS=PN/6436036
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...&RS=PN/6878885

On Feb 15, 6:31 pm, Jbuch wrote:
US Patents by Weight Watchers International

Patents are PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.

Part of the idea of a patent is that the concept is fully disclosed for
evaluation, but the discloser has the legal right to be the only
commercial user of the concept for the duration of the patent period.
The price of this right of protection is full and complete disclosure
(public disclosure in the records of the US Patent and Trademark Office).

It is fun to tell some weight watcher's members that you know these
"secrets". They don't believe you.

Weight Watchers International attempts to convince the public that the
details of the patent are "secrets".

Process for controlling body weight

Assignee: Weight Watchers International (Woodbury, NY)

Patent Numbers :
6040531
6436036
6878885

Search patents by Patent Numbers: (fill in number & click on "search"
button)

http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm

Links to the above 3 patent numbers. Because of the length of the links,
use of the above patent number search page may be easier for you. You
could also do a patent search where the search is on the assignee as
"Weight Watchers International" (without the " ")

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...ct2=HITOFF&p=1...

Even better is Google Patents:

http://www.google.com/patents

Faster and easier to navigate and search.

TC