What was filed
USPTO, WIPO, CIPO, and trademark records document applications, claims, dates, and legal status. They do not independently prove performance.
Patent lineage →Independent primary-source archive
Follow the record, not the lore.
A documented map of John Ellis water-treatment patents, first-party testing claims, public filings, and the federal regulatory record.
Three kinds of evidence
The archive keeps unlike materials unlike. A patent, a company-hosted laboratory document, and an agency warning letter answer different questions and carry different evidentiary weight.
What was claimed
Company pages, product instructions, and site-hosted test documents establish what was presented publicly—not whether the claims were independently validated.
Claims and testing →What the FTC said
The April 2020 warning letter documents staff concerns about unsupported COVID-19 prevention or treatment advertising. It was a warning letter, not a court judgment.
Regulatory record →What the record establishes
The collected documents support a narrow, defensible account. The archive avoids extending them beyond what they actually show.
A documented patent lineage
Issued U.S. patents describe distillation and water-degasification apparatuses and methods across two decades.
Later treatment applications
Three pre-grant publications extend the documentary trail into later “treating water” applications.
Independent efficacy evidence
The archive has not established independent, well-controlled evidence for medical or broad product-efficacy claims.
Do not infer efficacy from filing status.
Patent examination concerns patentability. It is not a safety certification, product approval, or independent experimental replication.
Start with the strongest trail
Read the evidence chronologically, then check the archive’s labels and limitations before drawing a conclusion.
Read the timeline
See the sequence of patent, trademark, regulatory, and archive events without blending them together.
Open timeline →Inspect direct records
Follow official FTC, USPTO, WIPO, CIPO, and first-party links with provenance notes.
Open sources →Check the method
Understand the archive’s evidence labels, capture date, copyright boundary, and unresolved questions.
Read methodology →