Re: [Vo]:A Curious 2003 Cold Fusion Patent Application

2011-12-29 Thread pagnucco
can be read. I couldn't copy from the Non-Final Rejection, but it should be read - Original Message - From: Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 4:21 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:A Curious 2003 Cold Fusion Patent Application Say

Re: [Vo]:A Curious 2003 Cold Fusion Patent Application

2011-12-29 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 10:57 PM 12/28/2011, Horace Heffner wrote: Wow. Rossi had better hope he doesn't get the same examiner. (Particularly failure to disclose best mode -- which doesn't even have to be active concealment). All the prior art stuff is well done. A couple of quibbles ... rather fatal to

Re: [Vo]:A Curious 2003 Cold Fusion Patent Application

2011-12-29 Thread Horace Heffner
On Dec 29, 2011, at 8:22 AM, Alan J Fletcher wrote: At 10:57 PM 12/28/2011, Horace Heffner wrote: Wow. Rossi had better hope he doesn't get the same examiner. (Particularly failure to disclose best mode -- which doesn't even have to be active concealment). All the prior art stuff is

[Vo]:A Curious 2003 Cold Fusion Patent Application

2011-12-28 Thread pagnucco
Pardon if this is old news on Vortex, but I was surprised to find this 2003 USPTO patent application -- http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2003/0112916.html Cold nuclear fusion under non-equilibrium conditions United States Patent Application 20030112916 Kind Code: A1 Inventors: Keeney,

Re: [Vo]:A Curious 2003 Cold Fusion Patent Application

2011-12-28 Thread Horace Heffner
What a surprise to me! If cold fusion patents are suddenly allowed, I can not imagine this kind of patent holding up in general upon challenging in court in infringement proceedings. The application was made in 2000. Most everything was invented, published or publicly discussed in

Re: [Vo]:A Curious 2003 Cold Fusion Patent Application

2011-12-28 Thread Horace Heffner
Say, if CF breaks as conventional, and this patent is issued, maybe this is intended to provide an excuse for the patent office to reject all subsequent cold fusion patent application claims based on infringement of prior art, until this patent is successfully challenged. On Dec 28, 2011,

Re: [Vo]:A Curious 2003 Cold Fusion Patent Application

2011-12-28 Thread Jay Caplan
be read. I couldn't copy from the Non-Final Rejection, but it should be read - Original Message - From: Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 4:21 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:A Curious 2003 Cold Fusion Patent Application Say, if CF

Re: [Vo]:A Curious 2003 Cold Fusion Patent Application

2011-12-28 Thread pagnucco
This patent application seems like one Fleischmann and Pons would have written as well. Sad that Jones and F-P didn't cooperate and avoid a lot of wasted time. Horace Heffner wrote: Say, if CF breaks as conventional, and this patent is issued, maybe this is intended to provide an excuse for

Re: [Vo]:A Curious 2003 Cold Fusion Patent Application

2011-12-28 Thread Horace Heffner
- Original Message - From: Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 4:21 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:A Curious 2003 Cold Fusion Patent Application Say, if CF breaks as conventional, and this patent is issued, maybe this is intended to provide