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quote:Originally posted by toybuilder
Segway cannot sell the HT's as a medical device -- they have an agreement with Johnson and Johnson that J&J gets to use the dynamic stabilization technoology for all medical applications, and Dean Kamen gets all other applications.
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BTW, I should point out that I got this information from the excerpt of Kemper's book that's been posted on the forum (
http://www.segwaychat.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3033):
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quote:Instead of asking for his usual hefty royalty, Dean offered Johnson & Johnson a different deal. He figured it would cost tens of millions more to get the [self-balancing wheelchair] to market. If Johnson & Johnson would put up the money, Dean would accept a smaller royalty. All he wanted in return were the rights to all nonmedical applications.
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Sometime before Dean showed Fred to Johnson & Johnson, Kurt Heinzmann, who had excellent balance and was crazy, had started entertaining himself by standing on Rev 0’s small platform and using the joystick to surf around the lab. For a while no one, including Dean, re-alized the implications of this larky feat. But then they did, and Dean’s imagination leapt at the possibilities. That’s why he had insisted on retaining the rights to all nonmedical applications of the technology.
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