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fabreze - patent?

  • 05-09-2007 2:01pm
    #1
    Slothy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73 ✭✭


    Hey,
    I went on holidays and the fuse in my fridge went so when i got home, the place smelt like i was hiding dead bodies in the place.....

    anyway I bought some fabreze....
    I read on it that it is patented....

    Is there anything else I can use that works the same... I doubt its really a special forumula is it?


    any geeks on here shed some light?


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  • #2
    themole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 888 ✭✭✭themole


    Slothy wrote:
    Is there anything else I can use that works the same...
    There could be but i don't know of any other similar products.
    Slothy wrote:
    I doubt its really a special forumula is it?
    Well, its obviously special enough that you bought it to do the job. Every chemical is different, the same way coca cola is different to pepsi.


  • #3
    enda1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,166 ✭✭✭enda1


    Is it the chemical that's patented or is it the delivery mechanism? I'm willing to guess the latter.


  • #4
    tak
    Closed Accounts Posts: 394 ✭✭tak


    As regards synthesising the stuff for yourself, I thought that modern EU regulations forced manufacturers to state the main constituents of each solution on the label ?
    Of course they will not give much specific detail on the crucial minor constituents like wetting agents, stabilisers, preparation processes, etc.

    I believe that new chemical structures can be patented.
    Whole classes of new structures even.
    Drugs certainly can be.

    From what one reads on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Febreze
    you'd think that its effectiveness was due to the natural shape of the active ingredient molecule . . .
    These have been around for a while and well researched.
    Too long one maight think to have any radically new structures found.
    It may well be the application mechanism that's patented.

    But I don't really know !;)


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