Re: [Biofuel] Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel
Hello Mike Google prior art patent I don't think there is much to worry about That the patent offices themselves don't seem to be much interested in checking for prior art is cause for concern. But I agree, this Ben Gurion University patent is not something I'd worry about, as we all seem to agree. Thanks! Best Keith Keith Addison wrote: I'd appreciate some opinions on this, if anyone would like to comment. Just to stir it up a bit, a somewhat ridiculous small company in Japan called Someya Shoten which feels it leads the world in matters biodiesel took out a patent on transesterification some years ago. So is Ben Gurion University infringing on Someya Shoten's patent? Or is the whole thing preposterous, since transesterification was invented/discovered about 150 years ago and is thoroughly in the public domain no matter who decides to patent it, and no matter which dumb patent office that doesn't check anything decides to grant the patent? Would the best advice to the Sahel group be to ignore it and just get on with it? Has anybody patented the human nose yet, or failing that, the air noses breathe? All best Keith I had this email from a group working with biodiesel in the Sahel. If it's true, it seems ridiculous to me. See: http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/ia.jsp?IA=IL2006000622REF=RSS (WO/2006/126206) PRODUCTION OF BIODIESEL FROM BALANITES AEGYPTIACA Best Keith Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:20:52 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 11:16 AM Subject: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel Dear Sirs, We are supporting NGO 's and cooperatives in Afrika, there is a big need to produce oil from all possible plants, nuts , seeds of any other vegetable origine , for human consumption or for producing energie. One of the NGO ' s in the Sahel-region helps the local population to organise the collecting of the fruits and nuts to improve their oil production from the nuts of the Balanites tree. The Balanites tree is very popular by the population , the fruits are sweet amere but the juice is used as a drink and sold to the town , the nuts are very hard and inside, the kernel contains 40 to 48% of oil. Sometimes the used as lamp-oil. The whole tree is very interesting for public health , on internet is a lot of information about that. The NGO will make the use as lamp-oil better by transesterification to obtain biodiesel that the should burn in small diesel cookingoven ,so that they don't have to use the wood , which is one of the biggest problem in this region. Further the don't have electricity , the have diesel generator , but the irrigularity in delivery and the high prices of gasoil makes it to difficult in using them all the time. The problem : There is a pattent on the invention to make biodiesel from BALANITES OIL .(WO/2006/126206) dated november 2006 by the BEN GORION UNIVERSITY Please can you inform us, Is it possible to take a patent on the transesterification process of oil to produce Biodiesel? Is this ALL Patent possible? Is this NEW and what is new on this invention? Is this not in contradiction with statements of many Organisations - World Wide - for the devellopment of POOR COUNTRIES , Thanks for your attention we remain with kind regards marc van de velde Leningstraat 19 2140 ANTWERP Belgium production and office in POLAND mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel
Thankyou very much, folks, that about wraps it up I think. I'll forward these messages to the Sahel group. By the way: http://www.fao.org/docrep/X5043E/x5043E05.htm Minor oil crops - Individual monographs (Balanites-Borneo tallow nut-Brazil nut-Caryocar spp) Edible - unlike jatropha: http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/FamineFoods/ff_families/BALANITACEAE.html BALANITACEAE - Famine Foods Best Keith Yes, but I think the problem is that the Patent office does not check the validity of patents. The test comes when the patent goes to court (so feeding the Legal fraternity...) regards Doug On Saturday 28 April 2007 08:18:05 am Fritz Friesinger wrote: Hi Keith, to my knowledge,anything belong to the public domaine kan not be patented.A simple dokumentet description of the process should be enough to dismiss any patentclaim! Fritz ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel
Google prior art patent I don't think there is much to worry about Keith Addison wrote: I'd appreciate some opinions on this, if anyone would like to comment. Just to stir it up a bit, a somewhat ridiculous small company in Japan called Someya Shoten which feels it leads the world in matters biodiesel took out a patent on transesterification some years ago. So is Ben Gurion University infringing on Someya Shoten's patent? Or is the whole thing preposterous, since transesterification was invented/discovered about 150 years ago and is thoroughly in the public domain no matter who decides to patent it, and no matter which dumb patent office that doesn't check anything decides to grant the patent? Would the best advice to the Sahel group be to ignore it and just get on with it? Has anybody patented the human nose yet, or failing that, the air noses breathe? All best Keith I had this email from a group working with biodiesel in the Sahel. If it's true, it seems ridiculous to me. See: http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/ia.jsp?IA=IL2006000622REF=RSS (WO/2006/126206) PRODUCTION OF BIODIESEL FROM BALANITES AEGYPTIACA Best Keith Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:20:52 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 11:16 AM Subject: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel Dear Sirs, We are supporting NGO 's and cooperatives in Afrika, there is a big need to produce oil from all possible plants, nuts , seeds of any other vegetable origine , for human consumption or for producing energie. One of the NGO ' s in the Sahel-region helps the local population to organise the collecting of the fruits and nuts to improve their oil production from the nuts of the Balanites tree. The Balanites tree is very popular by the population , the fruits are sweet amere but the juice is used as a drink and sold to the town , the nuts are very hard and inside, the kernel contains 40 to 48% of oil. Sometimes the used as lamp-oil. The whole tree is very interesting for public health , on internet is a lot of information about that. The NGO will make the use as lamp-oil better by transesterification to obtain biodiesel that the should burn in small diesel cookingoven ,so that they don't have to use the wood , which is one of the biggest problem in this region. Further the don't have electricity , the have diesel generator , but the irrigularity in delivery and the high prices of gasoil makes it to difficult in using them all the time. The problem : There is a pattent on the invention to make biodiesel from BALANITES OIL .(WO/2006/126206) dated november 2006 by the BEN GORION UNIVERSITY Please can you inform us, Is it possible to take a patent on the transesterification process of oil to produce Biodiesel? Is this ALL Patent possible? Is this NEW and what is new on this invention? Is this not in contradiction with statements of many Organisations - World Wide - for the devellopment of POOR COUNTRIES , Thanks for your attention we remain with kind regards marc van de velde Leningstraat 19 2140 ANTWERP Belgium production and office in POLAND mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel
There is one precedent set that I know of regarding a patent of what I would call an intuitive process. A while back a company called PanIP held a patent for what is basically e-commerce. It read something like, Any site with images that takes credit card numbers... They started extorting small companies with massive lawsuit threats. I'm not sure in what order things occurred, but basically they were finally counter sued and the company had to pay back all the legal fees it had incurred in its little rampage. This gives us a little hope that anyone that is granted a patent for a well known and documented process wouldn't be able to enforce infringement. On Friday, April 27, 2007 6:08 PM, doug wrote: Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:08:00 +1000 From: doug To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel Yes, but I think the problem is that the Patent office does not check the validity of patents. The test comes when the patent goes to court (so feeding the Legal fraternity...) regards Doug On Saturday 28 April 2007 08:18:05 am Fritz Friesinger wrote: Hi Keith, to my knowledge,anything belong to the public domaine kan not be patented.A simple dokumentet description of the process should be enough to dismiss any patentclaim! Fritz ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel
I'd appreciate some opinions on this, if anyone would like to comment. Just to stir it up a bit, a somewhat ridiculous small company in Japan called Someya Shoten which feels it leads the world in matters biodiesel took out a patent on transesterification some years ago. So is Ben Gurion University infringing on Someya Shoten's patent? Or is the whole thing preposterous, since transesterification was invented/discovered about 150 years ago and is thoroughly in the public domain no matter who decides to patent it, and no matter which dumb patent office that doesn't check anything decides to grant the patent? Would the best advice to the Sahel group be to ignore it and just get on with it? Has anybody patented the human nose yet, or failing that, the air noses breathe? All best Keith I had this email from a group working with biodiesel in the Sahel. If it's true, it seems ridiculous to me. See: http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/ia.jsp?IA=IL2006000622REF=RSS (WO/2006/126206) PRODUCTION OF BIODIESEL FROM BALANITES AEGYPTIACA Best Keith Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:20:52 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 11:16 AM Subject: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel Dear Sirs, We are supporting NGO 's and cooperatives in Afrika, there is a big need to produce oil from all possible plants, nuts , seeds of any other vegetable origine , for human consumption or for producing energie. One of the NGO ' s in the Sahel-region helps the local population to organise the collecting of the fruits and nuts to improve their oil production from the nuts of the Balanites tree. The Balanites tree is very popular by the population , the fruits are sweet amere but the juice is used as a drink and sold to the town , the nuts are very hard and inside, the kernel contains 40 to 48% of oil. Sometimes the used as lamp-oil. The whole tree is very interesting for public health , on internet is a lot of information about that. The NGO will make the use as lamp-oil better by transesterification to obtain biodiesel that the should burn in small diesel cookingoven ,so that they don't have to use the wood , which is one of the biggest problem in this region. Further the don't have electricity , the have diesel generator , but the irrigularity in delivery and the high prices of gasoil makes it to difficult in using them all the time. The problem : There is a pattent on the invention to make biodiesel from BALANITES OIL .(WO/2006/126206) dated november 2006 by the BEN GORION UNIVERSITY Please can you inform us, Is it possible to take a patent on the transesterification process of oil to produce Biodiesel? Is this ALL Patent possible? Is this NEW and what is new on this invention? Is this not in contradiction with statements of many Organisations - World Wide - for the devellopment of POOR COUNTRIES , Thanks for your attention we remain with kind regards marc van de velde Leningstraat 19 2140 ANTWERP Belgium production and office in POLAND mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel
Keith, I think stories of this underscore the broken nature of the patent process. The technology is fraught full of this. Amazon.com patented the one click checkout. Now, if you distill your e-business site down to one click you are infringing on their patent. Thus, you don't have to invent anything, just be the first at the patent office with a process no matter how fundamental or natural it may be. It will be interesting with transesterfication since it's a well documented chemical process. I would venture it would not hold up in court and thus, if someone tried to sue, the biodiesel community would get together and attempt to fight it since a ruling would effectively impact all producers. On Friday, April 27, 2007 1:21 PM, Keith Addison wrote: I'd appreciate some opinions on this, if anyone would like to comment. Just to stir it up a bit, a somewhat ridiculous small company in Japan called Someya Shoten which feels it leads the world in matters biodiesel took out a patent on transesterification some years ago. So is Ben Gurion University infringing on Someya Shoten's patent? Or is the whole thing preposterous, since transesterification was invented/discovered about 150 years ago and is thoroughly in the public domain no matter who decides to patent it, and no matter which dumb patent office that doesn't check anything decides to grant the patent? Would the best advice to the Sahel group be to ignore it and just get on with it? Has anybody patented the human nose yet, or failing that, the air noses breathe? All best Keith I had this email from a group working with biodiesel in the Sahel. If it's true, it seems ridiculous to me. See: http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/ia.jsp?IA=IL2006000622REF=RSS (WO/2006/126206) PRODUCTION OF BIODIESEL FROM BALANITES AEGYPTIACA Best Keith Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:20:52 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 11:16 AM Subject: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel Dear Sirs, We are supporting NGO 's and cooperatives in Afrika, there is a big need to produce oil from all possible plants, nuts , seeds of any other vegetable origine , for human consumption or for producing energie. One of the NGO ' s in the Sahel-region helps the local population to organise the collecting of the fruits and nuts to improve their oil production from the nuts of the Balanites tree. The Balanites tree is very popular by the population , the fruits are sweet amere but the juice is used as a drink and sold to the town , the nuts are very hard and inside, the kernel contains 40 to 48% of oil. Sometimes the used as lamp-oil. The whole tree is very interesting for public health , on internet is a lot of information about that. The NGO will make the use as lamp-oil better by transesterification to obtain biodiesel that the should burn in small diesel cookingoven ,so that they don't have to use the wood , which is one of the biggest problem in this region. Further the don't have electricity , the have diesel generator , but the irrigularity in delivery and the high prices of gasoil makes it to difficult in using them all the time. The problem : There is a pattent on the invention to make biodiesel from BALANITES OIL .(WO/2006/126206) dated november 2006 by the BEN GORION UNIVERSITY Please can you inform us, Is it possible to take a patent on the transesterification process of oil to produce Biodiesel? Is this ALL Patent possible? Is this NEW and what is new on this invention? Is this not in contradiction with statements of many Organisations - World Wide - for the devellopment of POOR COUNTRIES , Thanks for your attention we remain with kind regards marc van de velde Leningstraat 19 2140 ANTWERP Belgium production and office in POLAND mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel
Re: [Biofuel] Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel
Hi Keith, to my knowledge,anything belong to the public domaine kan not be patented.A simple dokumentet description of the process should be enough to dismiss any patentclaim! Fritz - Original Message - From: Keith Addison To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 2:21 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel I'd appreciate some opinions on this, if anyone would like to comment. Just to stir it up a bit, a somewhat ridiculous small company in Japan called Someya Shoten which feels it leads the world in matters biodiesel took out a patent on transesterification some years ago. So is Ben Gurion University infringing on Someya Shoten's patent? Or is the whole thing preposterous, since transesterification was invented/discovered about 150 years ago and is thoroughly in the public domain no matter who decides to patent it, and no matter which dumb patent office that doesn't check anything decides to grant the patent? Would the best advice to the Sahel group be to ignore it and just get on with it? Has anybody patented the human nose yet, or failing that, the air noses breathe? All best Keith I had this email from a group working with biodiesel in the Sahel. If it's true, it seems ridiculous to me. See: http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/ia.jsp?IA=IL2006000622REF=RSS (WO/2006/126206) PRODUCTION OF BIODIESEL FROM BALANITES AEGYPTIACA Best Keith Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:20:52 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 11:16 AM Subject: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel Dear Sirs, We are supporting NGO 's and cooperatives in Afrika, there is a big need to produce oil from all possible plants, nuts , seeds of any other vegetable origine , for human consumption or for producing energie. One of the NGO ' s in the Sahel-region helps the local population to organise the collecting of the fruits and nuts to improve their oil production from the nuts of the Balanites tree. The Balanites tree is very popular by the population , the fruits are sweet amere but the juice is used as a drink and sold to the town , the nuts are very hard and inside, the kernel contains 40 to 48% of oil. Sometimes the used as lamp-oil. The whole tree is very interesting for public health , on internet is a lot of information about that. The NGO will make the use as lamp-oil better by transesterification to obtain biodiesel that the should burn in small diesel cookingoven ,so that they don't have to use the wood , which is one of the biggest problem in this region. Further the don't have electricity , the have diesel generator , but the irrigularity in delivery and the high prices of gasoil makes it to difficult in using them all the time. The problem : There is a pattent on the invention to make biodiesel from BALANITES OIL .(WO/2006/126206) dated november 2006 by the BEN GORION UNIVERSITY Please can you inform us, Is it possible to take a patent on the transesterification process of oil to produce Biodiesel? Is this ALL Patent possible? Is this NEW and what is new on this invention? Is this not in contradiction with statements of many Organisations - World Wide - for the devellopment of POOR COUNTRIES , Thanks for your attention we remain with kind regards marc van de velde Leningstraat 19 2140 ANTWERP Belgium production and office in POLAND mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever:
Re: [Biofuel] Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel
Yes, but I think the problem is that the Patent office does not check the validity of patents. The test comes when the patent goes to court (so feeding the Legal fraternity...) regards Doug On Saturday 28 April 2007 08:18:05 am Fritz Friesinger wrote: Hi Keith, to my knowledge,anything belong to the public domaine kan not be patented.A simple dokumentet description of the process should be enough to dismiss any patentclaim! Fritz ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel
I had this email from a group working with biodiesel in the Sahel. If it's true, it seems ridiculous to me. See: http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/ia.jsp?IA=IL2006000622REF=RSS (WO/2006/126206) PRODUCTION OF BIODIESEL FROM BALANITES AEGYPTIACA Best Keith Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:20:52 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 11:16 AM Subject: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel Dear Sirs, We are supporting NGO 's and cooperatives in Afrika, there is a big need to produce oil from all possible plants, nuts , seeds of any other vegetable origine , for human consumption or for producing energie. One of the NGO ' s in the Sahel-region helps the local population to organise the collecting of the fruits and nuts to improve their oil production from the nuts of the Balanites tree. The Balanites tree is very popular by the population , the fruits are sweet amere but the juice is used as a drink and sold to the town , the nuts are very hard and inside, the kernel contains 40 to 48% of oil. Sometimes the used as lamp-oil. The whole tree is very interesting for public health , on internet is a lot of information about that. The NGO will make the use as lamp-oil better by transesterification to obtain biodiesel that the should burn in small diesel cookingoven ,so that they don't have to use the wood , which is one of the biggest problem in this region. Further the don't have electricity , the have diesel generator , but the irrigularity in delivery and the high prices of gasoil makes it to difficult in using them all the time. The problem : There is a pattent on the invention to make biodiesel from BALANITES OIL .(WO/2006/126206) dated november 2006 by the BEN GORION UNIVERSITY Please can you inform us, Is it possible to take a patent on the transesterification process of oil to produce Biodiesel? Is this ALL Patent possible? Is this NEW and what is new on this invention? Is this not in contradiction with statements of many Organisations - World Wide - for the devellopment of POOR COUNTRIES , Thanks for your attention we remain with kind regards marc van de velde Leningstraat 19 2140 ANTWERP Belgium production and office in POLAND mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
