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John Ellis water patents document distillation and water-degasification apparatuses and methods. They do not prove medical benefit, certify safety, or validate later health advertising. U.S. and PCT publications from 1982 onward are legal and technical records of what was filed. Company-hosted lab PDFs remain first-party claims until independently authenticated. The April 28, 2020 FTC action was a warning letter about unsupported COVID-19 prevention or treatment advertising, not a court judgment. This archive records that distinction and gives no treatment advice.
This is a historical and technical file. It does not diagnose, prevent, treat, or cure any condition. It does not recommend drinking, avoiding, dosing, or substituting any water, device, or therapy. Patents are not safety certifications. Hosted lab PDFs are not independent clinical evidence. If you have a health or water-safety question, use a licensed clinician and a qualified laboratory — not this archive.
Three drawers, one folder. Patent & history holds USPTO, WIPO, CIPO, and trademark records. Health claims holds company-hosted tests and advertising. Regulatory holds the FTC letter. Click a leaf. Read the stamp. The existing patent lineage stays the chronological list; this desk is where the classes stay unlike.
John Ellis Water Archive · File JE-PAT · snapshot 2026-02-05
Issued U.S. patent · class A
Patent / history
An issued USPTO patent dated July 13, 1982, in the collected Ellis lineage, disclosing a distillation apparatus.
Commercial performance, drinking-water safety, or any medical outcome.
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Eight statements. Four stamps. Patent/history, health claim, regulatory record, or not in the file. The last stamp is for inferences the papers do not carry — including treatment conclusions this archive will not make.
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US4339307 issued on July 13, 1982, titled Distillation Apparatus.
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John Ellis water patents document distillation and water-degasification apparatuses and methods. They do not prove medical benefit, certify safety, or validate later health advertising. U.S. and PCT publications from 1982 onward are legal and technical records of what was filed. Company-hosted lab PDFs remain first-party claims until independently authenticated. The April 28, 2020 FTC action was a warning letter about unsupported COVID-19 prevention or treatment advertising, not a court judgment. This archive records that distinction and gives no treatment advice.
On April 28, 2020, the FTC Division of Advertising Practices sent a warning letter to John Ellis Water after reviewing the company website and a linked social-media page. Staff identified advertising claims about preventing or treating COVID-19 and stated that such claims were not supported by competent and reliable scientific evidence. The archive classifies this as a warning letter, not a court judgment, product recall, or blanket shutdown. The May 2020 FTC announcement listed the company among 45 marketers who received similar letters.
No. York, Orga, bacteria-destruction, and farm milk-production documents captured from the company site are first-party material. They show what was presented. They are not treated as independent validation until the originating laboratory, complete unedited report, protocol, and unaffiliated replication are confirmed. This archive has not established that confirmation.
No. Patent examination concerns patentability of a disclosed apparatus or method. The collected USPTO, WIPO, and CIPO records are not drinking-water safety certifications, medical-device approvals, or product-performance tests.
No. johnelliswater.org is an independent historical and technical archive. It is not affiliated with John Ellis Water or JohnEllis.com. It does not sell products and does not provide medical, engineering, purchasing, or water-safety advice. Do not use it to diagnose, prevent, treat, or cure disease, or to decide how to treat drinking water.