Bed bug heater?

[Nate The Great]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Really-Hot-...270?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item486e39be06

Found this on Ebay while browsing around. Anyone has any info on it?

I'm unaware of the outcome with legal issue with ridding bed bugs with heat. Therma-pure or something like that would sue you if you advertised using heat to rid them? They patented the process or something like that...

 

[Mike Draper]

they better sue E-tes then. same thing

 

[Shawn Forsythe]

they better sue E-tes then. same thing

The salient component to the patent is the process (and licensing of the process by the patentholder), not the device.

The E-Tes is not designed, tested, or otherwise instructed to be used for the eradication of any pests whatsoever. Therefore, it does not infringe on any patent for a "similar" product that is used, designed and patented for this purpose. Thermapure's 812 patent, entitled Method of Killing Organisms and Removal of Toxins in Enclosures, refers to the sanitizing of buildings. It does not claim that the process will dry buildings.


If you were to use this ebay blower/heater for bedbugs......
While a lone cleaner may escape the "radar" of a corporate patentholder, and not be subject to litigation, the cleaner should know that he can not legally "certify" that the use of a product for killing bedbugs, without U.S. EPA registration. Also there are considerations of local and state jurisdictions regarding the licensing and regulation of professional pest control. The net result is that you might invite criminal legal action, rather than civil. There is also the civil liability to the customer, who can do as little as refusing to pay, or sue for damages due to legally non-proven efficacy (in addition to no legal right to administer).

 

[Desk Jockey]

RIA members can now safely use heat for drying with no fear of lawsuit provided the temperatures are kept below 105 degrees.

BUT you CANNOT use heat for killing bed bugs or you will be sued for infringement of the 812 patent.

http://www.thermapure.com/pdf/Settlement_Agreement_FULLY_EXECUTED.pdf