Dont appologise. It isimportant to have picked this up at this stage. There will be a patent examiner allocated to search for "prior art" but the word geoengineering does not apper in the patent and the examoner may not have heard of it either.
Patent systems are notoriously chauvinistic in every country so the challenge should come from a US person or university. Greg Benford. Your work on diatamaceous earth was way prior to this . Any chance your uni patent dept could do this? John gorman ----- Original Message ----- From: Jamais Cascio To: [email protected] Cc: Jamais Cascio ; John Gorman ; geoengineering Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 11:41 PM Subject: Re: [geo] Diatomaceous Earth patent My mistake -- I directed Dr C to the entry. Apologies. -Jamais Cascio On Sep 3, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Ken Caldeira wrote: Sorry about that. Thanks for the correction. It is merely a patent application, not a patent. On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 1:17 PM, John Gorman <[email protected]> wrote: As I read this document it is a patent application. No patent has been granted and there is a period of evaluation during which it is easy to challenge. If it is ever granted then it could be a real nuisance. I filed a UK provisional patent 27th October 2006 referring specifically to silica.. My first article in any press was a regional weekly newspaper on1st DEc 2006 I had article in the magazine of the Ski Club of Great Britain specifically mentioning silica in January 2007 in my website:// www.naturaljointmobility.info/pressarticles.htm All of that was before I had ever heard of the word geoengineering or this group. Only later did I find out about Greg Benford's work -and other similar work.Prior to that I thought my work was original as possibly Mr Neff thinks! Can someone in a US university with a patent department investigate and put a challenge in before its too late. I will provide details of the above three bits of evidence. john gorman ----- Original Message ----- From: Ken Caldeira To: geoengineering Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 7:17 PM Subject: [geo] Diatomaceous Earth patent James Cascio has kindly pointed out that a patent has been issued for the use of silica particles for stratospheric sunshade geoengineering. (see attached). The patent was filed on 30 Sep 2009, with a provisional patent filed on 30 Sep 2008. I note that this idea of using silica particles was discussed on this group at least as early as 1 May 2007: https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#search/googlegroups+silica/11243cfe473291d8 and I have email from Greg Benford from that period specifically referring to "diatomaceous earth". One would assume that any rational court would find that this patent describes things that are obvious to those skilled in the relevant arts. (I suppose the question then is whether an expectation of encountering a "rational court" is itself rational.) ________________ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 [email protected] http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab @kencaldeira See our YouTube: Carbon dioxide emissions embodied in international trade Past land use decisions and the mitigation potential of reforestation Near Zero videos -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
