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Portable Toilets Headed for Haiti: Leikam Enterprises, LLC & Green Earth Packaging, LLC Team Up

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Leikam Enterprises, LLC and Green Earth Packaging, LLC have teamed up to help support and to ship Green Earth’s portable toilets Green to Go Bio Loo for Haiti. Leikam Enterprises sells the Oven Claw Pro Oven Claw and will donate $5.00 to Green Earth Packaging Green Earth Packaging so that a family in Haiti can have a portable toilet.

Palo Alto, California USA, March 18, 2010 – In addition to medicine, water and food, the survivors of the Haitian earthquake need toilets especially now as the rainy season has hit and disease from sewage has begun to ravage the tent cities. Leikam Enterprises, LLC and Green Earth Packaging, LLC have teamed up to supply the people with self-contained portable toilets supplied by Green Earth Packaging.

Leikam Enterprises will donate $5.00 for every Oven Claw Pro sold through its website. According to the President of Sales and Marketing, Mr. Lee Leikam, “The Oven Claw Pro is currently selling on a variety of websites from between $22.00 to $30.00. Now people can order their Oven Claw Pro at the Oven Claw website for $19.95. Out of that $5.00 will be used to purchase a toilet. From each sale the company guarantees that Green Earth Packaging will provide a Green to Go Bio Loo to a family in Haiti. Currently hygiene and privacy are two important challenges faced by the Haitian people especially during the hurricane season. These will help reduce disease and offer some dignity to the people trapped in the open.” (Contact Bill@ovenclaw.com)

Shortly after the earthquake in Haiti, Leikam Enterprises, LLC sought to find a way to help hard hit Port-au-Prince and other outlaying areas beyond the city. By teaming up with Green Earth Packaging, LLC in Lafayette California, these two companies have found a way to work together to help the Haitian people. The Green to Go Bio Loo itself not only degrades but so too does the inner liner. The latter contains silica that speeds up decay of the fecal matter and eliminates odor. These are sorely needed by the people especially as the hurricane season approaches. Leikam said, “We have an obligation to help avert widespread disease throughout the people’s encampments. If these units are not delivered, death by disease may kill many more thousands of people above and beyond the actual earthquake.”

Green Earth Packaging, LLC
1712 Springbrook Road
Lafayette, CA 94549
Phone: 925.932.4182
Fax: 925.932.4171

Green Earth Packaging

Leikam Enterprises, LLC

530 Kendall Ave Suite #1

Palo Alto, Ca. 94306

Phone: 650-856-3041

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Design Patent for the Oven Claw Pro Issued to Leikam Enterprises, LLC

Monday, June 15th, 2009

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Palo Alto California – On May 26, 2009 the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) issued design patent US D592,907 S to William C. Leikam, president and founder of Leikam Enterprises, LLC. “It’s really very exciting for all of us here to have this patent in hand.”

 

When the final design was completed to Leikam’s satisfaction he was advised that he needed to hire a patent attorney to do the research and file the proper paperwork. However, he decided to do some of his own research first and then, if an attorney was essential he would contact one and move forward. Leikam said, “When I first began I didn’t even know that the generic name for this kitchen utensil was an oven rack puller. Without that, I couldn’t move ahead because I didn’t know what I was searching for. I asked friends and family what it was called but no one knew.” That led to complete frustration on his part. As it turned out, he was doing a search through the PTO’s database when he accidently stumbled across its name. That opened up everything. Online he found that there was a number of oven rack pullers on such websites as eBay, Crate and Barrel and in several other online stores but none of them looked anything like the Oven Claw Pro.

 

With this information and finding that his design was unique, Leikam contacted a patent attorney on a consulting basis, discussed the process, the costs, etc., and then went online to see whether or not he could apply for the patent himself. He didn’t have the estimated $15,000 – $20,000 that he was quoted. “I didn’t have that much money but from my consultation with the attorney, it seemed like a simple enough job. It would just take a lot of careful research to complete.” He went to work on it and did an in-depth search of the PTO’s database for oven rack pullers and anything that might be related. “The more I dug, the more confident I was that I could apply for a patent and be successful.”

 

Finally, Leikam contacted an online company that put together the information into an application at a minimal cost. Without going into all of the details, his application was transferred to a second company who finalized it and submitted it to the PTO. In the end his patent cost less than $2,000, a far cry from the original quote. When asked, what he learned from this, Leikam responded, “It was one of the best things I’ve done for the company thus far because now we own intellectual property (IP) and that means that we can license the Oven Claw Pro. In addition, by having it patented it has made all the difference in the world for attracting national distributors. Finally, I found that if one doesn’t give up even when completely frustrated – and believe me there were times when I wanted to give up – it’s possible to be awarded a patent without having to directly hire an attorney to do the hard work.”

 

About Leikam Enterprises, LLC
Leikam Enterprises, LLC was founded in 2008. We are launching the company by manufacturing and distributing the company’s first product, the patented Oven Claw Pro. Our mission is to deliver high quality, efficient and safe kitchen tools to the marketplace and to design products that make the gourmet’s kitchen a safer place.

We are constantly looking for green Earth friendly alternatives and when available use recycled and renewable resources in the manufacturing of our hardwood products. Our products are manufactured in the United States and we proudly display Made in the USA.

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KitchenGadget.com Reviews the Oven Claw

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

bill-leikam-president-leikam-enterprises-llc-11Friends:
The Oven Claw has been reviewed online at the website Kitchen Gadget.com. Take a look and check out the pictures too including the one of me from the Business Week article. Just in case you haven’t yet read it, there’s also a link there for the Business Week article. I think you’ll enjoy it and learn something new about the Oven Claw. http://www.gadgetskitchen.com/the-oven-claw-review/1073  There has been an upsurge in the amount of press we are receiving. It’s coming mainly through the press releases that have appeared online.

Remember, you can purchase your Oven Claw right here on our website. Just click this link and get your Oven Claw. http://ovenclaw.com/shopping.htm If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can purchase it at Dreager’s Markets (www.draegers.com) and at Select Appliances in South San Francisco (http://www.selectappliance.com/). Finally, you can Google the Oven Claw and find other places where it’s being sold.

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