The Botbrik Patent The protection of a patent
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(From: “How To Tell What Patents Are Worth” June 25th 2013 Forbes Leadership Forum. Forbes Magazine)
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The BotBrik Patent has its origin in the search for a sustainable solution to prolong the life cycle of the plastic content of billions of plastic bottles discarded every day. All the plastic content is reused, even the plastic top. This new design and concept of plastic bottle doesn´t change or modify the basic use and manufacturing of the bottle, on the contrary, it adds to this useful method of transporting and selling liquids important ecological and commercial advantages.
Our new design for plastic bottles transforms the empty bottles into interlocking building bricks. When filled with sand, a plastic bottle is stronger than a similar sized building brick.
BotBriks interlock together without the need for binding material. The side joining plugs of one BotBrik fit perfectly into the side receiving recesses of another BotBrik.
When one BotBrik is placed together with another, in either a vertical or horizontal position, the spout of the inferior BotBrik will fit into the hollow cone of the superior one. At the same time the superior joining plug of the inferior BotBrik will fit into the inferior joining recess of the superior one. Thus the two BotBriks become interlocked together.
One very important aspect about our BotBrik design is its universal concept. Design and sizes will be the same all over the world. BotBriks in China will have the same sizes and shapes as BotBriks in Spain or in The United States, so they can be reused all over the world without any problem if they are exported from one country to another and will still interlock into each other.
Here we can see many BotBrik bottles interlocked together building a wall. The BotBrik bottles are interconnected both vertically and horizontally.
Bottling companies would be charged a small royalty payment for each bottle produced using our design. The amount of this royalty payment would be very small (less than one cent), but due to the huge numbers of plastic bottles produced annually, our potential income would be very large.
There would be three royalty payment levels.
1. Developed countries such as the USA, Europe and Australia.
2. Developing countries such as Mexico, Brazil and Turkey.
3. Underdeveloped countries such as India, Egypt and Indonesia.
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