FTC legal-library entry dated April 28, 2020, with the original letter PDF.
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Agency press release placing the John Ellis Water letter in the broader COVID-19 advertising initiative.
Agency summary that specifically discusses the claims attributed to John Ellis Water.
Search the collected U.S. identifiers: 4339307, 4420374, 4612090, 5203970, 6409888, 20150246825, 20180079657, and 20200095136.
PCT bibliographic record and documents for the later water-degasification patent family.
Public status and documents for the JOHN ELLIS WATER trademark application.
Use number search for CA2403082. The direct legacy record is unstable and document retrieval may require an interactive captcha.
Company-controlled source for product descriptions and claims. Linked for provenance, not endorsement.
Local research corpus
The private preservation repository contains 92 captured source records plus OCR for key patent publications. These include official PDFs, screenshots of interactive government systems, first-party HTML pages, laboratory documents as published by the company, and blocked-access evidence.
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- Some WIPO, FTC PDF, and CIPO endpoints block automated clients or require interactive sessions even when the public browser page remains available.
- Australian and European national-phase records were mapped but not fully retrieved from official offices during the February 2026 capture.
- First-party laboratory documents still require verification with their named originating laboratories.