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Patent No. 5970981

Mouthguard made at least partially from an edible candy

A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.

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Examiner: Dixon, Harold A.


Primary examiner statistics: 1262 patents; average approval time: 1040 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 95 patents; average approval time: 1047 days

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7222111 Multi-utility energy control and facility automation system with ...
7212983 Method and apparatus for providing visitors with a personalized i...
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7194417 Automated method and system for recognizing unfulfilled obligatio...
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7171368 Method and apparatus for the remote inspection of postage meters
7162449 Automated banking machine apparatus and system
7162430 Information processing method and system as to evaluation informa...
7158939 Method and system for improved reporting of issued travel tickets
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Patent No. Patent Title:
6502079 Method and system for enforcing floating licenses
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6456987 Personal computer-based mail processing system with security arra...
6442528 Exemplar workflow used in the design and deployment of a workflow...
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6397199 System and method of altering transaction terms based upon curren...
6397192 Synchronizing one or more workflows using one or more synchroniza...
6397191 Object-oriented workflow for multi-enterprise collaboration
6381588 Optical disk recordable using both a cipher key and disk identifi...
6381577 Multi-user remote health monitoring system
6363366 Produce identification and pricing system for checkouts
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6327541 Electronic energy management system
6321214 Method and arrangement for data processing in a shipping system w...
6317718 System, method and article of manufacture for location-based filt...
6317721 Transaction accounting of toll transactions in transponder system...
6314408 Method and apparatus for controlling access to a product
6311171 Symmetrically-secured electronic communication system
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6308166 Methodology for advanced quantity-oriented cost assignment using ...
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6292790 Apparatus for importing and exporting partially encrypted configu...
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6282525 Method and arrangement for data processing in a mail shipping sys...
6243693 Token-operated apparatus for communal prepayment water management
6240403 Method and apparatus for a modular postage accounting system
6236979 Marketing system, information communications method, and recordin...
6226626 Method and arrangement for data processing in a mail-processing s...
6223169 Electronic transaction processing system with escrow card
6219647 Method and an apparatus for preprocessing logging of received pos...
6219655 Method of RF-based communication
6212505 Postage meter with removable print head and means to check that p...
6202057 Postage metering system and method for a single vault dispensing ...
6199054 Automated software metering of digital payloads
6192350 Method of usage-dependent determination of costs in making commun...
6188996 System for metering permit mail
 
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