Bolte Taylor Set to Kick Off
Response Expo 2009 on May 19
By Thomas Haire ( thaire@questex.com)
SANTA ANA, Calif. — Renowned neu-roanatomist and author Dr. Jill Bolte
Taylor will bring her inspiring story to
attendees of Response Expo 2009 as
the event’s keynote speaker on Tuesday, May 19 at the Hilton San Diego
Bayfront. Dr. Bolte Taylor’s address is
scheduled for 5: 30 p.m. The event will
run through Thursday, May 21.
One of Time Magazine’s 100 Most
Influential People of 2008, Dr. Bolte
Taylor experienced a severe hemorrhage
in the left hemisphere of her brain in
1996. The stroke left her without the
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ability to walk, talk, read, write or recall any of her life. It took eight years
for Dr. Bolte Taylor to completely re-cover all of her functions and thinking
ability.
She went on to author the New
York Times bestselling memoir My
Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s
Personal Journey (published in 2008 by
Viking Penguin). In addition, Dr. Bolte
Taylor was a featured guest on “The
Oprah Winfrey Show” and serves as the
National Spokesperson for the Harvard
Brain Tissue Resource Center.
Response Expo is expecting 2,000
attendees during the three-day event at
the brand new Hilton Bayfront, located
on the water in downtown San Diego,
directly across from Petco Park, home
of the San Diego Padres. During the
event, attendees will not only hear from
Dr. Bolte Taylor, but also from indus-try-recognized consultant and media
personality Shelly Palmer, a regular
contributor to the Jack Myers Report,
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The Huffington Post and CNN. Palmer
will deliver a special breakfast address,
“Get Digital,” at 10 a.m. on Thursday,
May 21.
A full schedule of seminar sessions
— featuring speakers from such companies as Hyundai, InterContinental
Hotels, Kodak, JG Wentworth, L’Oréal,
5-Hour Energy, AccuQuote, Buy.com
and more — as well as three huge networking parties highlight the three-day
event. The closing night party on May
21 is a private event at Sea World, one
of San Diego’s most renowned attractions.
For more information on the
speakers and events, or to register for
Response Expo 2009, visit
www.responseexpo.com.
Shifferaw Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit
Against Marketers of Ab Rocket
By Jacqueline Renfrow ( jrenfrow@questex.com)
ALBANY, Calif. — T. Dosho Shifferaw, an
inventor of fitness equipment, filed a patent
infringement lawsuit against Emson USA,
E. Mishan & Sons Inc., Academy Sports &
Outdoors and Amazon.com in the U.S. District
Court for the Eastern District of Texas Marshall Division on Feb. 19. The suit claims that
a recently introduced abdominal product, the
Ab Rocket, infringes on two of Dosho Design
Inc.’s patents, both licensed exclusively to
Shifferaw, the company’s founder/president
and CEO.
Shifferaw’s patented technology, the
Lift-Assist System, consists of six Lift-Assist
Powerbands for a full range of ab exercises.
The Ab Rocket, being marketed in commercials, infomercials and E-commerce sites,
includes resistance cylinders to be used for
an abdominal workout.
Shifferaw tells Response that the lawsuit
affected him on a personal level. “When I first
came up with the Lift-Assist system, people
in the industry criticized and belittled it. I was
continually asked why anyone would want an
ab product that does the work for you. Nevertheless, I believed in the Lift-Assist concept
and marketed it as the Ab-Lifter by Kathy
Smith. Kathy was one person who believed
in it
enough
to endorse
it. And it did
very well. That was seven years ago.”
Eddie Mishan of Emson tells Response,
“The company plans to aggressively refute
the allegations made in the filed lawsuit
through the litigation process.”
A court date has not yet been set for the
trial.
