Stephen’s Products

Below find some of the successful products that Stephen has been involved with commercializing over the years.

Brita Water and Fishbone Packaging

Fishbone

Stephen is part of the team responsible for developing and commercializing a new packaging innovation that replaces plastic rings handles. Fishbone — which is licensed by Atlantic Packaging, the largest privately-held packaging company in North America — uses compressed and branded paperboard to hold items in place. The best part? They’re 100% curbside recyclable!

Lazer Tag is one of stephen key's products

Lazer Tag

Stephen was on the product team for the worldwide hit product Lazer Tag.

Spinformation Licensed to Accudial

Spinformation

Stephen’s idea of a rotating label that added 75% more space appeared on many products worldwide.

Hot Picks Stephen Key and Taylor Swift

Hot Picks

Hot Picks, a company that Stephen founded, produced guitar picks featuring a wide range of designs, including iconic characters licensed from Disney and famous musician Taylor Swift!

Patents & Awards

Here is a list of some of Stephen’s patents

  • 9,085,402  Medical Information Rotating Label System for a Container
  • 8,727,220   Machine readable information interface for a container
  • 8,709,198   High-speed expanded content labels
  • D588,628   Stringed instrument plectrum
  • 7,172,668   Rotatable label system and method
  • 7,087,298   Rotating label system
  • 6,649,007   Rotatable label for pharmaceutical container and method for constructing same
  • 6,631,578   Roll-fed method for constructing a rotatable label system
  • 6,402,872   Rotating label system and method
  • 6,385,878   Rotatable label system including tamper-evident feature and method for constructing same
  • 6,237,269   Roll-fed method for constructing a rotatable label system
  • 6,212,803   Rotatable label system on a drinking vessel and method for constructing same
  • 6,129,802   Rotatable label system and method of constructing same
  • 6,086,697   Rotating label system and method
  • 5,884,421   Apparatus and method for constructing a rotatable label device
  • 5,809,674   Apparatus and method for increasing an effective information carrying surface area on a container

Here is a list of a few of Stephen’s awards.

  • 2011 AccuDial – New Product Innovation Award – Frost & Sullivan
  • —2011 AccuDial – PTPA Seal of Approval
  • —2011 AccuDial – Edison Awards – Gold & Bronze Award Winner
  • —2011 AccuDial Product of the Year, Canada
  • —2008 Best New Product Concept – Disney Consumer Products
  • 2008 NAMM Best In Show – Guitar Picks – Accessories
  • 2007 NAMM Best In Show – Guitar Picks – Accessories
  • —2002 FlexoTech Print and Innovations Award Winner in the   Combination Printing Category
  • —2001 IOPP AmeriStar Awards First Place
  • —2001 International Association of Printing House Craftsmen   Gold & Bronze Award Winner
  • —2000 IOPP AmeriStar Awards BEST OF SHOW
  • —2000 IOPP AmeriStar Awards Best of Category (Pharmacy)
  • —2000 World Label Association Innovation Award
  • —2000 Package Printing Excellence Awards First Place   Production Achievement
  • —2000 PCT U.K. Product of the Year
  • —2000 TLMI Awards Honorable Mention in Technical   Achievement
  • —1999 TLMI Awards Innovation Winner in Technical   Achievement
  • —1999 Pyramid Awards, Award of Excellence in Film Labeling
  • —1999 Food & Drug Packaging News, Package of the Year