smallchanger

When you sold to Lorillard, supposedly one of their prerequisites for the sale was that you settle with Ruyan over a patent they had for an electronic cigarette. Ruyan's patent however only covered piezo-electric atomizers. All other e-cig manufacturers had switched to using heating coils in their atomizers which they believed were not covered by Ruyan's patent. Philip Morris had a prior patent for an e-cig from 1993. This more closely resembled the e-cigs other manufacturers were now making but it was out of date.

In fact Ruyan had previously failed in a Chinese court to stop an e-cig manufacturer (Cixi Ecig) from continuing to sell e-cigs all apart from one model which had a piezo-electic atomizer. Were you and Lorillard aware of this case? Did you or they think Ruyan's patent actually had merit? was it more of a precaution?

Are you following any current e-cig cases, I think Ruyan still might have ongoing one against a number of other e-cig businesses in the US.

Did you offer any support to Njoy and Smoking Everywhere when they fought the FDA?

Can you tell us why then? Really would appreciate an answer to that.

Did you know that Ruyan (Dragonite) issued a press release claiming that you settled with them?
http://www.tobaccotoday.info/2012/04/23/blu-cig-settles-with-dragonite-and-dragonite-gets-new-patent-issued/

The Board is also pleased to announce that the Plaintiff has executed a settlement agreement with defendant BLEC, LLC which provides for the payment of monetary compensation to the Plaintiff. A request for dismissal without prejudice of defendant BLEC, LLC from the case will be filed in due course

What do you make of this?