Patents

Powerful composition-of-matter patent protection

The technology behind Silver 100™ with Opti-Silver™ is protected by U.S. and foreign patents that are "composition" patents. This type of patent is generally known to be the most important kind of patent by far.

Some patents in the colloidal silver field are "product-by-process" patents, which only cover the substance if it is made through a specific sequence of steps but do not provide any protection if the same substance is made through any one of a variety of alternative processes. Other patens are "method-of-use" patents, which only provide protection if the substance is used for a certain purpose.

The composition-of-matter patents that protect the technology behind Silver 100™ with Opti-Silver™ are not only of the most solid type of protection, but they provide very broad protection because they cover not just the formulation that makes up Silver 100™ but, in fact, entire classes of complexing agents and counter-ions. The formulation behind Silver 100™ was chosen out of many possible formulations that are protected under the patent because it is believed, after years of effort and research that required millions of dollars invested, to be the most efficient of all.

U.S. Patent # 6,838,095

The technology behind Silver 100™ is protected under U.S. Patent # 6,838,095. To view the patent in PDF format, click here.

To view the patent on the web site of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, click here.

Foreign Patents

Please feel free to Contact Us for information on the foreign patents that cover the technology behind Silver 100™.