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MMRGlobal Adds Two Patents and 57 Claims Expanding IP, Adds Insurance, Legal, Accounting and MyEsafeDepositBox Services
LOS ANGELES, CA, Jan 09, 2013 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
MMRGlobal, Inc. (OTCQB: MMRF) ("MMR") today announced that it has
received two additional patents adding 57 additional claims to the
Company's patent portfolio to expand the scope of the Company's
patent protection to include insurance, legal, accounting, mortgage
and other types of important documents when combined with a Personal
Health Record (PHR). MMR is a leading provider of Personal Health
Records through its MyMedicalRecords PHR, MyEsafeDepositBox storage
solutions and MMRPro document management and imaging systems for
healthcare professionals. With the award of the two newest patents,
the Company's patent portfolio includes seven issued patents
including U.S. Patent No. 8,352,287, U.S. Patent No. 8,352,288, and
U.S. Patent Nos. 8,121,855; 8,117,646; 8,117,045; 8,301,466 and
8,321,240. The Company also has additional U.S. Applications and
continuation applications on file plus numerous other issued patents
and pending applications in other countries of commercial interest
including Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Mexico, Canada, Hong
Kong, Japan, South Korea, Israel, and European nations.
According to John Goodhue at McKee, Voorhees & Sease (www.ipmvs.com),
"These most recent patents help expand the Company's claims beyond
healthcare. MMR has demonstrated the ways in which it has innovated
in health information technology including methods to provide
patients meaningful access to their personal health information while
creating EsafeDepositBox storage solutions through Web-based portals
or PHRs. As the industry approaches the 2014 requirements for
Meaningful Use Stage 2 and continues towards Stage 3, the relevance
of these innovations will continue to grow."
"U.S. Patent No. 8,352,288 is also significant in that it relates to
collecting records from service providers in addition to healthcare
providers solidifying MMR's position in the online medical records
market while simultaneously including methods and systems for storage
of other types of important documents," continued Goodhue.
MMR is also offering licenses to more than 1,000 hospitals, group
practices, and EMR and PHR providers through letters, sales
presentations and other public forums. As a result, the Company has
reached license agreements and/or is in the process of entering into
strategic business relationships with EMR and PHR vendor(s),
retailers and other wellness and healthcare providers. Additionally,
MMR is working through trade associations with regard to selling and
licensing the Company's products and services and IP to thousands of
organization members.
The Company's newest patents also include methods as to how patients
request medical information from hospitals and physicians as well as
claims providing for permission-based systems that allow healthcare
professionals or other service providers to use a Web-based service
to send and store health records and other important documents by
fax, email, or otherwise while applying different levels of security
to records in a PHR.
About MMRGlobal
MMRGlobal, Inc., through its wholly-owned operating
subsidiary, MyMedicalRecords, Inc., provides secure and easy-to-use
online Personal Health Records ("PHRs") and electronic safe deposit
box storage solutions, serving consumers, healthcare professionals,
employers, insurance companies, financial institutions, retail
pharmacies, and professional organizations and affinity groups. The
MyMedicalRecords PHR enables individuals and families to access their
medical records and other important documents, such as birth
certificates, passports, insurance policies and wills, anytime from
anywhere using the Internet. MyMedicalRecords is built on
proprietary, patented technologies to allow documents, images and
voicemail messages to be transmitted and stored in the system using a
variety of methods, including fax, phone, or file upload without
relying on any specific electronic medical record platform to
populate a user's account. The Company's professional offering,
MMRPro, is designed to give physicians' offices an easy and
cost-effective solution to digitizing paper-based medical records and
sharing them with patients in real time through an integrated patient
portal. Through its merger with Favrille, Inc. in January 2009, the
Company acquired intellectual property biotech assets that include
anti-CD20 antibodies and data and samples from its
FavId(TM)/Specifid(TM) vaccine clinical trials for the treatment of
B-Cell Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. To learn more about MMRGlobal, Inc.
visit www.mmrglobal.com. View demos and video tutorials of the
Company's products and services at www.mmrtheater.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
All statements in this press release
that are not strictly historical in nature, including, without
limitation, intellectual property licenses, potential intellectual
property enforcement actions, infringement claims or litigation, and
future performance, management's expectations, beliefs, intentions,
estimates or projections, constitute "forward-looking statements."
Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors that may cause the Company's actual
results to be materially different from historical results or from
any results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
Some can be identified by the use of words (and their derivations)
such as "need," "possibility," "potential," "intend," "offer,"
"development," "if," "negotiate," "when," "begun," "believe,"
"achieve," "will," "estimate," "expect," "maintain," "plan," and
"continue," or the negative of these words. Actual outcomes and
results of operations and the timing of selected events may differ
materially from the results predicted, and any reported results
should not be considered as an indication of future performance. Such
statements are necessarily based on assumptions and estimates and are
subject to various risks and uncertainties, including those relating
to the possible invalidity of the underlying assumptions and
estimates and possible changes or developments in economic, business,
industry, market, legal and regulatory circumstances and conditions
and actions taken or omitted to be taken by third parties, including
customers, suppliers, business partners, potential licensees,
competitors and legislative, judicial and other governmental
authorities and officials. Factors that could cause or contribute to
such differences include, but are not limited to: unexpected outcomes
with respect to intellectual property enforcement actions, claims of
intellectual property infringement and general intellectual property
litigation; our ability to maintain, develop, monetize and protect
our patent portfolio for both the Company's health IT and
biotechnology intellectual property assets in the U.S. and
internationally; the timing of milestone payments in connection with
licensing our intellectual property; our ability to establish and
maintain strategic relationships; changes in our relationships with
our licensees; the risk the Company's products are not adopted or
viewed favorably by the healthcare community and consumer retail
market; business prospects, results of operations or financial
condition; risks related to the current uncertainty and instability
in financial and lending markets, including global economic
uncertainties; the timing and volume of sales and installations; the
length of sales cycles and the installation process; the market's
acceptance of new product and service introductions; competitive
product offerings and promotions; changes in government laws and
regulations including the 2009 HITECH Act and changes in Meaningful
Use and the 2010 Affordable Care Act; future changes in tax
legislation and initiatives in the healthcare industry; undetected
errors in our products; the possibility of interruption at our data
centers; risks related to third party vendors; risks related to
obtaining and integrating third-party licensed technology; risks
related to a security breach by third parties; risks associated with
recruitment and retention of key personnel; other litigation matters;
uncertainties associated with doing business internationally across
borders and territories; and additional risks discussed in the
Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The
Company is providing this information as of the date of this release
and, except as required by applicable law, does not undertake any
obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this
release as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
CONTACT:
Michael Selsman
Public Communications Co.
ms@publiccommunications.biz
(310) 922-7033
SOURCE: MMRGlobal, Inc.
mailto:ms@publiccommunications.biz
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