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The Patent File

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.

Not treatment, not a product page

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.

Open the docket

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

US4339307: Distillation Apparatus

1982 · US4339307

Establishes

An issued USPTO patent dated July 13, 1982, in the collected Ellis lineage, disclosing a distillation apparatus.

Does not establish

Commercial performance, drinking-water safety, or any medical outcome.

Source: USPTO Patent Public Search — 4339307

Keyboard: Left and Right move between visible leaves. The drawer tabs are in the tablist above.

Stamp the statement

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.

Statement 1 of 8

No stamps yet.

US4339307 issued on July 13, 1982, titled Distillation Apparatus.

How to read this file

  1. Split the drawers. Put issued patents, PCT publications, and the trademark file in Patent & history. Put company-hosted tests and advertising in Health claims. Put the FTC letter in Regulatory. Do not let proximity on a timeline merge them.
  2. Read the stamp before the lore. Each leaf states what the document can establish and what it cannot. If a sentence is not on that leaf, it is not in the file.
  3. Refuse the inference stamp. “Issued, therefore it works,” “hosted PDF, therefore independent,” and “warning letter, therefore a shutdown” are not records. Stamp them Not in the file.
  4. Stop before advice. This desk classifies paper. It does not diagnose, dose, treat, or tell anyone to start, stop, or avoid licensed care or tested water treatment.

Cite this page

Cite The Patent File as an editorial classification desk for the collected record, not as a laboratory result, legal opinion, or medical finding. Prefer the linked USPTO, WIPO, CIPO, TSDR, and FTC originals for the underlying facts. Snapshot date for the research capture: February 5, 2026. This desk: September 19, 2026.

Continue in the linear record: patent lineage, claims and testing, regulatory record, source index, methodology.

Direct answers

The same distinctions, as questions an answer engine actually asks.

Do John Ellis water patents prove health claims?

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.

What did the 2020 FTC letter actually say?

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.

Are the lab tests on johnellis.com independent evidence?

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.

Is a patent a safety certification?

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.

Does this site give treatment or water-safety advice?

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.