{"id":10975,"date":"2011-04-27T01:30:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T06:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=10975"},"modified":"2011-04-27T00:03:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T05:03:17","slug":"piddle-pack-sparks-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/27\/piddle-pack-sparks-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Piddle Pack Sparks Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unsung hero of the long duration sortie (or small bladder), the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/fighterpilotspeak.htm#Piddle_Pack\">piddle pack<\/a> is now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2011\/04\/marine-military-urine-containment-bag-lawsuit-042611\/\">focus of a lawsuit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>American Innotek, the California company that makes the [&#8220;Flight Extender&#8221;]&#8230;is suing the federal government over alleged infringement of its patented urine containment bag.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently Innotek lost their contract when their &#8220;Flight Extender&#8221; was replaced by New York City Industry for the Blind&#8217;s &#8220;Piddle Pak.&#8221;\u00a0 (The name likely came from the affectionate appellation, not the other way around.)\u00a0 Innotek alleges that the piddle pak infringed on their patent.<\/p>\n<p>Who would ever think the potty-in-a-pouch would ever be such a big deal?\u00a0 Then again, ask any fighter pilot on a long flight after he drank too much coffee in the brief&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unsung hero of the long duration sortie (or small bladder), the piddle pack is now the focus of a lawsuit: American Innotek, the California company that makes the [&#8220;Flight Extender&#8221;]&#8230;is suing the federal government over alleged infringement of its patented urine containment bag. Apparently Innotek lost their contract when their &#8220;Flight Extender&#8221; was replaced by New York City Industry [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,1728,5285,1729,1727],"class_list":["post-10975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-american-innotek","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-flight-extender","tag-piddle-pack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}