LOS ANGELES, CA — (Marketwire) — 01/28/13 — (OTCQB: MMRF) (“MMR”) today announced that the Japan Patent Office has allowed Patent Application No. 2008-529977 directed toward a Method and System for Providing Online Medical Records. The resulting patent will include 40 claims relating to accessing health records through a web site, collecting health records directly from healthcare providers, and managing the records such as by organizing the documents, applying additional password protection, and electronically sending the health records to healthcare providers. Additional patent applications are also pending in Japan.
MMR is a leading provider of (PHRs) through its PHR, storage solutions and MMRPro document management and imaging systems for , and has seven issued health IT patents in the United States, with nearly 400 claims. The Japanese patent will add to the Company-s international patent portfolio. The Japanese patent and other MMR international patents issued or pending in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Mexico, Canada, Europe, Israel, and South Korea were not included in a valuation summary on the Company contained in a recent report ().
The Company also announced approval of its European Union patent application protecting certain methods of manufacturing compositions for B-cell vaccines used in the fight against lymphoma and potentially other forms of cancer. This in the process of proceeding to validating on the patent in numerous countries of commercial interest, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Ireland and Belgium. The patent is similar in scope to the Company-s U.S. Patent numbers 6,911,204, 8,114,404 and 8,133,486. MMR-s biotech patents and other intellectual property, which were acquired through its 2009 reverse merger with San Diego-based biotech company Favrille, Inc., currently include three U.S. patents, four U.S. pending patent applications and numerous additional patents and patent applications globally, as well as other IP which are the subject of 13 million dollars in licensing agreements.
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 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, , 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/Specifid vaccine clinical trials for the treatment of B-Cell Non-Hodgkin-s lymphoma. To learn more about MMRGlobal, Inc. visit . View demos and video tutorials of the Company-s products and services at .
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