Pharmacy label system

• US 7,628,427 B2
• Filed: 01/25/2005
• Issued: 12/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CVS Pharmacy Incorporated (CVS Health Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Target Brands Inc. (Target Corporation)
• Inventors: Adler, Deborah B., Douglas, Patrick L., Grisik, Matthew S., Rosburg, Klaus
• Primary Examiner(s): Ross; Dana
• Assistant Examiner(s): BATTULA, PRADEEP CHOUDARY
• Application Number:
  US11/042,739
• Publication Number:
  US 20060163869A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,778 Days
• Field of Search: 206/459.5, 206/232, 206/534, 206/427, 206/432, 283/81, 283/94, 283/101, 283/106, 283/114, 283/900, 428/40.1, 428 421- 423, 428/201, 403/10, 406/38, 406/72, 406/74, 215/311, 215/320, 215/365, 215/379, 215/382, 215/383
• US Class Current: 283/81
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/0288 Labels or tickets consisting of more than one part, e.g. with address of sender or other reference on separate section to main label; Multi-copy labels
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/0289 Pull- or fold-out labels
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 283/90 Medical record

Abstract

A label for a prescription pharmacy bottle comprises a first portion adapted for securing to a front portion of a bottle, a second portion adapted for securing to back portion of a bottle, and a printed information on the label relating to a medication. The printed information includes a first type of information, a second type of information, and a third type of information. The first type of information includes prescription-related information including, but not limited to, a drug identifier and a patient identifier. The second type of information includes at least one of a drug identifier and a patient identifier. The third type of information includes warning information. The first type of information is always positioned in the first portion of the label and the third type of information is always positioned on the second portion of the label, and the first type of information is printed at a 180 degree opposite orientation of the second type and third type of information.

Claims

1. A label for a prescription pharmacy bottle, the label comprising:

a first portion adapted to be adhesively secured to front portion of a bottle;

a second portion adapted to be adhesively secured to a back portion of the bottle;

a middle portion interposed between the first portion and the second portion, the middle portion adapted to be secured to a top portion of the bottle opposite an opening of the bottle; and

printed information on the label relating to a medication, the printed information including;

a first type of information including a prescription-related information including at least one of a drug identifier and a patient identifier,

a second type of information including at least one of a drug identifier and a patient identifier; and

a third type of information including warning information,

wherein the second type of information is always positioned on the middle portion of the label to be viewed from a top portion of a bottle, the first type of information is always positioned on the first portion of the label to be viewed from the front portion of the bottle, and the third type of information is always positioned on the second portion of the label to be viewed from the back portion of the bottle;

wherein the label is a single piece adapted to be applied to the bottle by wrapping the first portion onto the front portion of the bottle, the middle portion onto the top portion of the bottle, and the second portion onto the back portion of the bottle in a wrap-around application where the first and second portions are adhesively secured onto two, different surfaces facing away from one another; and

wherein the first portion, the second portion, and the middle portion are the only portions of the label and are configured to collectively contact only the front portion, the back portion, and the top portion of the bottle.

2. The label of claim 1 wherein the second portion of the label comprises an adhesively securable portion and a non-stick portion, wherein the non-stick portion is generally rectangularly shaped and extends from an edge of the second portion of the label partially across a width of the second portion of the label, wherein the adhesively securable portion of the second portion of the label includes a top portion, a side portion, and a bottom portion that together generally surround three sides of the non-stick portion to define a slot between the non-stick portion and a back portion of a bottle, wherein the slot is configured to slidably removably receive an information card.

3. The label of claim 1 wherein the first type of information includes primary information and secondary information, wherein the secondary information includes at least one of a pharmacy identifier and a physician identifier, and the primary information is printed in a first font that is lager and bolder than a second font of the secondary information, and wherein the primary information is spaced from the secondary information.

4. The label of claim 3 wherein the warning information of the third type of information comprises at least one warning relating to use of the medication associated with the label, and the at least one warning is oriented horizontally and each at least one warning includes at least one of a symbol, icon, or pictogram signaling a non-textual indication of a nature of the at least one warning.

5. A one-piece prescription label comprising:

a first portion displaying prescription-related information;

a second portion displaying at least one warning identifier; and

a middle portion interposed between the first portion and the second portion and displaying at least one of a drug identifier and a patient identifier;

wherein the one-piece prescription label comprises a separation junction between the middle portion and the first portion, the separation junction configured to enable selective separation of the first portion from both the middle portion and the second portion to enable;

securing the first portion of the one-piece prescription label onto a front portion of a bottle; and

securing, separately from the first portion of the one-piece prescription label, both the middle portion and the second portion of the one-piece prescription label onto a back portion of a bottle;

wherein when the one-piece prescription label is maintained as a one-piece prescription label without separation between the first portion and the middle portion, the middle portion of the one-piece prescription label is secured to the top portion of the bottle opposite an opening of the bottle to display the patient identifier or the drug identifier on the top portion of the bottle.

6. The label of claim 5 wherein prescription-related information on the first portion of the one-piece prescription label has a right-side up reading orientation that is 180 degrees opposite to a right-side up reading orientation of the at least one warning identifier on the second portion of the one-piece prescription label.