follicle84 said:
Dr P. There is a company selling products called nanogaine which use SOD's which i believe you use in your products. They also do there own nano shampoo in the brand name nanogaurd a. Do you have any association with this company? or are they a different company entirely.
No. Unfortunately, there has been recently been a rash of knock-offs of both our trademarks and our patents. Nanogaine is just one of them.
The most outrageous set of knock-offs is from Pureology, recently purchased by cosmetics giant L'Oreal. Pureology is now one of their high-end product lines. I suppose I should be honored.
Anyway, Purology has a NANOworks (sic) line of products that they sell thru salons. Allegedly, the Pureology formulations were developed by a California hairdressor named James Markham. You can judge the credibility of this claim, especially considering the multiple infringements of our intellectual property.
Usually you get your patents or your trademarks ripped off, not both. BTW, we have used the "NANO" mark for roughly 20 years, which means we have pretty strong claims to it.
The ingredients list of every Purology product I have been able to locate indicates that they infringe at least two of our patents. I mean, their ingredients lists include stuff that is in the
title of my patents. And then they sell it under our NANO trademark. Lotta damn nerve.
Pureology products only sell through hair stylists. So I was not aware of any of these shenangans until recently.
Interestingly, three L'Oreal patents cite our hair-treatment discoveries as "prior art". So they knew about our technology in the very areas that the Pureology products infringe. I have contacted them about this and hope for a favorable reply.
Peter H. Proctor, PhD,MD