The Bindi Holder

a simple patented device to facilitate wearing of decorative, spiritual, and healing bindi elements on the third-eye chakra

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⚠️ ANY MAKING, USING, OR SELLING OF EYEWEAR OR HEADWEAR
THAT SIMPLY SUPPORTS BINDI-LIKE ELEMENTS
COULD BE AN ACT OF INFRINGEMENT
OF ONE OR MORE PATENTS OF THE BINDU® PATENT FAMILY.

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The Patents

Patents in numerous countries of the world

Patent Family

Bindu^® IP comprises a positive PCT, a granted European Patent, and multiple national patents, a majority of them granted.

GRANTED Patents

international / regional patents:

🌐 PCT

🌐 PCT (global patenting procedure, 157 states): ✓ fully positive report. Application 20767556.2 | PCT/EP2020/075181 (2020/10/9, EPO examination). Publication WO2021048196 (2021/03/18). Title Forehead Bindi Holding Device. Google Patents. Patentscope.

🇪🇺 EUROPEAN PATENT

🇪🇺 EUROPEAN PATENT (regional patent, 39 states): ✓ granted & in force. Application 19382784.7 (2019/09/10, EPO examination). Publication EP3791748A1 (2021/03/17). Grant EP3791748B1 (2023/01/11). Title Forehead Bindi-Holding Device | Dispositif de Maintien de Bindis du Front | StirnBindi-Haltevorrichtung. Google Patents. Patentscope. EPO. Espacenet.

national patents:

🇨🇳 CHINA

🇨🇳 CHINA (national patent): ✓ granted & in force. Application 202080063385.X, PCT/EP2020/075181 (2022/03/10, PCT national phase). Publication CN114364284A (2022/04/15). Title 额头眉心贴（圆点）夹持装置. Google Patents. Patentscope.

🇫🇷 FRANCE

🇫🇷 FRANCE (national patent): ✓ granted & in force. Application 19382784.7 (EP) (2019/09/10, EP validation). Publication EP3791748A1 (2021/03/17). Grant EP3791748B1 (2023/01/11). Title Dispositf de Maintien de Bindis sur le Front. INPI.

🇩🇪 GERMANY

🇩🇪 GERMANY (national patent): ✓ granted & in force. Application 19382784.7 (EP) (2019/09/10, EP validation). Publication EP3791748A1 (2021/03/17). Grant EP3791748B1 (2023/01/11). Title Stirnbindi-Haltevorrichtung. DPMA.

🇪🇸 SPAIN

🇪🇸 SPAIN (national patent): ✓ granted & in force. Application 19382784.7 (EP) (2019/09/10, EP validation). Publication EP3791748A1 (2021/03/17). Grant EP3791748B1-. Title Forehead Bindi Holding Device. OEPM.

🇬🇧 UK

🇬🇧 UK (national patent): ✓ granted & in force. Application 19382784.7 (EP) (2019/09/10, EP validation). Publication EP3791748A1 (2021/03/17). Grant EP3791748B1 (2023/01/11). Title Forehead Bindi-Holding Device. UK IPO.

🇺🇸 USA

🇺🇸 USA (national patent): ✓ granted & in force. Application 17/639,919 (2022/03/3, PCT national phase). Publication US11607019B2-. Grant US11607019 (2023/03/21). Title Forehead Bindi-Holding Device. Google Patents. Patentscope. USPTO. EspaceNet.

Lapsed patents

Lapsed patents: 🇦🇹 Austria, 🇧🇪 Belgium, 🇮🇪 Ireland, 🇳🇱 Netherlands, 🇸🇪 Sweden, 🇨🇭 Switzerland, ..

Pending Patents

patents pending of grant:

🇮🇳 INDIA

🇮🇳 INDIA (national patent): pending of publication. Application 202217016794 (2022/03/24, PCT national phase). Title Forehead Bindi Holding Device.

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US Patent Grant

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Ownership

Patents and patent rights associated to the Bindu^® innovation are owned by Taurum Technologies SL.

Inventorship

The Bindu^®innovation has been uniquely created by Mr. Sáenz Löbsack, official sole inventor of all Bindu^® patents.

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Abstract

The invention relates to a forehead bindi-holding device (BH) for holding at least one bindi (BI) and configured to be arranged on a supporting object (SO) worn by a user (US), such that, when the user wears the supporting object (SO) with the forehead bindi-holding device (BH), the at least one bindi (BI) is on a desired specific spot of the user’s forehead; the forehead bindi-holding device (BH) comprising: one or more cups (CU) each of them supporting, holding and containing each of the one or more bindis (BI); one cups-holder (CH) to support the one or more cups (CU); one stem element (ST) to support the cups-holder (CH) at the upper end of the stem element (ST); one attachment unit (AU) for attaching the lower end of the stem element (ST) to the supporting object (SO).

Introduction

The present invention relates to a forehead bindi-holding device created to facilitate, improve and enrichen the experience of wearing bindis.

Bindis (from Sanskrit word ‘bindu’, meaning ‘drop’ or ‘spot’) are generally defined as simple small decorative marks or elements that many people (principally women from Meridional and Southeast Asia) carry on a precise horizontally-centered point of their foreheads (on the position of the so called ‘third eye’). People wear bindis for different often-mixed reasons: to beautify themselves, to socially-identify themselves, or to try to positively influence themselves (or their surrounding environment) in aspects such as health, wellbeing, spirituality, intellectual capacity, physical performance, and luck.

Disadvantges of current systems

A wide majority of users of bindis stick them directly on the approximate center of the skin of their foreheads via some kind of adhesive material. This system implies quite many inconveniencies, namely:

noxiousness of materials used to adhere the bindi to the skin (e.g. causing dermatoses);

risk of skin damage when the bindis (or their remains) are removed;

uncomfortable cleaning of remnants of adhesive material from the skin after removing the bindi;

high risk of displacement, deterioration, or loss (even unnoticed) of the bindi, when it is worn, put on or removed, or as a consequence of deficiencies in its fixation, especially with changes of ambient temperature or with the sweating of the user’s forehead;

significant risk of damage of the bindis after only one usage, circumstance that forces a majority of bindis to be disposable and of very low quality;

bindis’ enormous limitation in the variety of shapes (generally flat), of weights (generally minimal) and of economic/emotional value (generally negligible);

difficulty in placing and maintaining the position of the bindis at a precise point of the forehead, a location that may vary with the physical characteristics and functions of the bindi and that depends greatly on the specific morphology of the body of the user (disposition and shape of eyes, nose, eyebrows, forehead) and the specific desires of the user;

cumbersome repetitiveness of the daily efforts to accurately place and wear the bindis;

involuntary variability of the exact positioning of the bindi due to lack of sufficient hand skills or other physical impairments;

risk of inconvenient or unhealthy staining the hands with the materials of the bindi;

impossibility or strong limitations to carry bindis that, due to their specific functions, must always be worn in real or apparent contact with the skin, or at an exact distance from it;

impossibility or strong limitations to carry bindis that should be worn not facing the exterior of the forehead’s skin (‘external bindis’) but oriented towards the inside of the body touching or almost-touching the forehead skin (‘internal bindis’);

impossibility or considerable limitations to carry more than one bindi at a time, e.g. when the user desires to simultaneously wear a pair of bindis, one external and one internal.

Advantages of the invention

The device object of the present invention allows the user many advantages, such as the ones described below: :

to place and wear one or more bindis, or auxiliary elements to them, for as long as wanted, on a specific spot of the center of the forehead;

to carry, put on and take off bindis, in a quick and easy way, with nil or minimal risk of loss, damage and soiling of the bindis;

to carry, put on and take off bindis without worrying about damages on the skin and without having to clean the skin from bindi-gluing remains;

to significantly amplify the range of possible bindis to wear, extending it for example to all those bindis (such as jewels and curative gems) that do not present a flat form or that do not have an insignificant weight or that do have a much higher economical or emotional value than that of commonly used bindis;

to voluntarily adjust the exact tridimensional position of bindis in relation to the forehead, this is, not only regarding vertical and horizontal dimensions on the surface of the forehead, but also regarding the precise distance separating a bindi from the forehead skin (distance that may be nil, apparently nil, or established in a concrete minimal distance), as well as regarding the orientation (degrees of inclination) of a bindi relative to the surface of the forehead skin;

to carry, put on and take off bindis with nil or minimal risk of modifying or losing the configuration of their exact location and orientation on the forehead, which is very particular and specific to each user;

to carry, put on and take off bindis without the need of touching the bindi with the hands;

to wear interchangeable bindis (easily mountable and dismountable);

to wear a bindi in direct contact and minimal continuous pressure with the forehead skin or at an exact distance from it;

to wear external bindis that can fully or almost-fully hide a simultaneously-worn internal bindi;

to adjust position of bindis via gradual incrementation systems;

to be able to adjust the position and orientation of bindis relative to different inclinations of surfaces of potentially-bindi-holding supporting objects also worn on the user’s head.

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The Company

an innovative and long-term visionary firm committed to the creation of world-changing inventions

Given the diverse nature and potential business path of each of its inventions, Taurum creates, funds, breeds and parents a different startup (sister company) for each of them.

All IP shielding and branding an invention end up being owned and managed by the associated sister company.

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Talent Force

This innovation venture has become a reality thanks to the excellent work of a smart international team of talent: a selective worldwide spread set of independent lawyers, engineers, accountants and creative professionals which have been coordinated by the firm’s CEO, in turn supported and guided by a solid advisory board.

Daniel SÁENZ LÖBSACK (Founder & CEO)

Daniel has been a multinational executive for around two decades, leading as CEO / Managing Director complex turnaround transformations of fairly sized building-materials and industrial-services businesses located in Europe, Asia and South America. He has worked with permanent residency in countries with highly diverse cultures, religions, languages, and levels of macroeconomic maturity such as Spain, France, Bangladesh, Germany, Malaysia and Peru. His global professional experience has been complemented with a demanding academic trajectory (Engineering Degree, Master of Science in Industrial Engineering, MBA at INSEAD, PhD studies, …), an intense top-competitive sports life (24 caps with Spain’s National Senior Rugby team), and a strong interest in envisioning the future and seeking disruptive innovations (inventor behind 3 patent families comprising 80 national patents). As of today, apart from managing some investment projects in Latin America and casual teaching of strategic and business management as master’s university professor, Daniel is fundamentally engaged with his innovation ventures Taurum, Spinswitch, and Thumbray Technologies.

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Advisory Board

We are endorsed and counselled by a solid international panel of non-executive advisors comprising relevant strategists, executives, entrepreneurs, scientists and academics.

The joint expertise of this extraordinary board covers not only a wide and rich span of wisdom but also an extensive worldwide footprint of influence.

Mr. José Luis SÁENZ DE MIERA (Advisor - Global Strategy, Corporate Governance)

Mr. José Luis Sáenz de Miera

Former Board Member at global headquarters of CEMEX, one of the largest building materials companies in the world and where he held the positions of President & CEO of Cemex Southern Europe, Africa, Middle East & Asia, CEO of Cemex Spain and Vice-President of Finance & Administration at Valenciana de Cementos. Along his intense professional life, he also became Chairman and CEO of Group Cementos Portland Valderrivas, Board Member of Nueva Pescanova, and Partner – in charge of Audit – at KPMG Spain. He holds a degree in Economic Sciences by the Complutense University of Madrid. Nowadays, he makes use of his vast international executive experience and wisdom to provide consulting and advisory services to miscellaneous businesses, institutions, investors and entrepreneurs.

Dr. Kimio KASE (Advisor - Corporate Strategy, Strategic Management)

Dr. Kimio Kase

Ex-President and Professor Emeritus at the International University of Japan (IUJ). Former professor at Chinese Beijing Normal University, at Japanese Ritsumeikan University, and faculty member (on leave) at Spanish IESE Business School. He earned his DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) from Manchester University, and his MBA from IESE Business School. With extensive corporate experience in the fields of Global Trade and Management, he initiated his international career working for a Japanese global trading house, where he specialized in Industrial Marketing. He later took top executive positions in Spain as Director of Price Waterhouse Coopers Europe, and as Partner in a headhunting firm. He also served the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC. Professor Kase has written and published – in English, Spanish and Japanese – numerous scientific articles and books on strategy and management. One recent solid success is his co-authorship of “The Nonaka Series of Knowledge and Innovation” (Ed. Palgrave Macmillan). Currently, his major areas of academic interest are Corporate-level Strategy, Strategic Management, Strategic Planning, Knowledge Management, and Sports Management.

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Amb. José Ramón BARAÑANO (Advisor - International Relations, Government Affairs)

Amb. José Ramón Barañano

He has served abroad as Ambassador of Spain to India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand, and as Head of the Economic and Commercial Office of the Spanish Embassies in Morocco, Austria and Ecuador. At the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was Ambassador for International Environmental Affairs, Inspector General and Deputy Director-General for Bilateral Economic Relations. He was also Director-General of Fisheries at the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture and was board member of several companies such as CESCE (Spanish Export Insurance Company), MERCASA (Spanish Food Wholesaler), DEFEX (Defense Promotion and Export) and CETARSA (Tobacco processing and commercialisation). He holds a degree in International Studies from the Spanish Diplomatic School, a Postgraduate Certificate in High European Studies from the Belgian College of Europe, and a BA (with Hons) in Economics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Currently, he is international business advisor at miscellaneous American, European and Asian industrial and technological firms.

PhD. Aynur ÜNAL (Advisor - Engineering, R&D, Innovation)

PhD. Aynur Ünal

Highly reputed scientist, educator, academician and innovation booster. Fulbright Scholar and price-winning Engineering professor at STANFORD University, where she earned her PhD in Engineering & Applied Mathematics, where she founded and created the curricula for Stanford’s Acoustics Institute using research funds from NASA Ames, and where, at Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health in collaboration with UCLA Medical School and IIT Guwahati’s Centre for Nanotechnology, led relevant research projects using AI in bio-sensing and early-health diagnostics to prevent Salmonella infections, lung diseases, gastric cancers, autism and Alzheimer. Former Dean of Engineering & Technology at ANSAL/Sushant University in India. Assignee and inventor of several patents on collaborative planning, field where her works are considered to have been crucial in the creation of instant secure encrypted communication and collaboration software using internet protocols for B2B applications and complex supply chains. Co-founder (and current technological leader) of Digital Monozukuri, an engine for open innovation focused on Smart Systems and e-Services based on AI, AR-VR & Gamification. Along her career, she has taken executive design/manufacturing and IT management roles at Siemens, LSI Logic and Flextronics and has co-founded, developed and directed several American and British startups (E2OPEN, Saqqara Systems, Data Reliability, Imjack/Amteus..). Currently, she completes her intense innovation activities focused, among others, on revolutionary sustainable health-caring digital systems, wearable devices and bio materials, with works as strategic advisor to universities in USA, India and Japan and to technological ventures InfoSec Global, NaquiLogix and Taurum Technologies.

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Eduardo G. HERNÁNDEZ (Advisor - Consumer Goods, Marketing)

Eduardo G. Hernández

Board Member Director / Advisor in FMCG, Finance, Marketing and NGO sectors. Current COO of Latin America at Coca-Cola FEMSA (publicly traded KOF, largest franchise Coca-Cola bottler in the world), with full responsibility over the results of operations in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Argentina. Within KOF, he also took the positions of Strategy Director and of Director of New Businesses, being instrumental in the successful creation and development of emerging product categories and in the significant M&A growth of the group. He was also CEO of the Food, Beverage & Dairy Division of multinational Grupo Gloria where he led more than 10’000 employees and managed a complex worldwide exporting conglomerate that comprised operations in 7 countries of North America and South America and generated over $ 2B of revenues. Before Grupo Gloria, he served Empresas Polar taking several top executive positions such as Marketing Director Malt Beverage, International Business Director Beer & Malt Beverage, Business Director Beer & Wine, and Business Unit Manager Corn Flour, Oats & Powder Beverage. In sum, Eduardo accumulates 30 years of executive positions within FMCG Industries based in LATAM and US, period during which he has led and executed 2 crucial turnarounds and 4 major acquisitions. He also holds an MBA by Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University), a Certificate in Marketing, Administration & Management by Harvard University, and a B.A. by Universidad Metropolitana.

Jorge PÉREZ DE LEZA (Advisor - Assets Management, Investor Relations)

Jorge Pérez de Leza

Jorge is CEO of Metrovacesa since 2016. With over €2.5 billion of assets under management, Metrovacesa is a leading real estate developer in Spain, representing one of the highest valued and most attractive land banks in the country. Jorge joined Metrovacesa to reorganise the company and relaunch its property development activity after the economic crisis in Spain, leading the company’s IPO in 2018. Previously, he worked 12 years as top executive director at Grupo LAR, first as Head of Europe (managing all European operations including Germany, France, Poland, Romania, Latvia, Hungary and the Baltic States) and then as Head of Spain, holding full responsibility over €1’000 million of assets under management and assuming a key role in the IPO and subsequent growth of LAR España REIT. Before Grupo Lar, he was COO of Excite@Home Europe (broadband internet access and multimedia content creation), Managing Director & Partner of Fun & Basics (fashion clothing, footwear and accessories), and Manager at Boston Consulting Group (BCG, global management consulting). Jorge has an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BSc and MSc in Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management from ICAI Engineering School, at Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid. He is also Founder and President of Fundación Deporte y Desafío (NGO Sport & Challenge Foundation).

Arch. Guillermo GARCÍA DE POLAVIEJA (Advisor - Sustainability, Environment, Health & Safety)

Arch. Guillermo García de Polavieja

Partner and Technical Director at TMA, Head for Sustainable Transport at SBA Consultores, and Co-founder & Chairman of consulting group G5 Expertos Ambientales. His experience comprises two decades of professional practice as environmental consultant in Transportation, Acoustics and Sustainable Planning. Worked as environmental expert for the European Union and consulted for the Madrid Municipality taking responsibility for the Madrid 2^nd Strategic Plan for Noise Abatement. Committee Member at Rugby Europe and Directive Executive at the Spanish Rugby Federation. Licensed Architect and Urban Planner by the Madrid School of Architecture, with degrees in Conservation and Restoration of Architectural and Urban Heritage, Building Acoustics, Urban Environment and Airport Planning. Author of multiple technical articles and papers related to environmental noise, impact assessment and environmental planning. Lecturer at various regular graduate and professional courses. Earner of a Career Discovery Scholarship at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

JD. Cristina CAZORLA (Advisor - International Trade, PR, Legal Compliance)

JD. Cristina Cazorla

Ms. Cazorla has been serving the U.S. Department of Commerce in Spain for over two decades, where she currently holds the role of International Commercial Trade Specialist, controller and budgeting expert. She has a degree in Law by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Before joining the Embassy of the United States of America in Madrid, she spent six years intensively working at the historical and highly reputed Díaz-Arias Spanish law firm, where she ended up taking full responsibility over the editorial coordination and general management of “Gaceta Fiscal“, the Spanish Tax & Legal magazine with the largest print run in the country.

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