{"id":3866,"date":"2010-01-04T19:37:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T19:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/01\/a-germ-free-communion-dispenser.html"},"modified":"2010-01-04T19:37:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T19:37:46","slug":"a-germ-free-communion-dispenser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/01\/a-germ-free-communion-dispenser.html","title":{"rendered":"A germ-free communion dispenser?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yep. <\/p>\n

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I can’t imagine these things popping up at a Catholic mass, but you never know.     <\/p>\n

Anyway: now this invention is getting even more attention because of a lawsuit: <\/a><\/p>\n

\nA holy war of sorts has broken out in the communion-wafer-dispensing space.<\/p>\n

\"picture-11.png\"<\/a><\/span>A Minnesota marketer of communion-wafer dispensers is accusing its former president of patent infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets.  <\/p>\n

The allegations in a Dec. 30 federal lawsuit come amid a fledgling market for such dispensing devices, as those receiving communion seek a germ-free environment. The handheld devices allow the dispensing of wafers without being touched by anybody but those receiving them.<\/p>\n

What’s more, the portable devices, according to the lawsuit, “easily deliver communion to military personnel in combat situations and to people who are hospitalized, infirm or otherwise immobile.”<\/p>\n

Among other things, Nu-Life Products of Minnesota claims it owns technology known as the “rapid reload system” for fast wafer loading and the “quad-rotator technology” allowing up to 400 wafers to be dispensed without having to be refilled.<\/p>\n

The defendant in the case, former company president Douglas Henricksen of Wisconsin, says he never sold a single unit of the competing “Communalabra germ-free communion-host-delivery system” and that he didn’t misappropriate any of his former employer’s properties while operating a similarly named company called Nu-Life Church Supplies.<\/p>\n

“This is blown way out of proportion,” Henricksen said in a telephone interview. “I was the person who actually designed the communion-host dispenser. I actually built the entire company myself.”<\/p>\n

The suit seeks unspecified damages from Henricksen and the return of documents in connection to the dispute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s more at the link. <\/p>\n

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