At 11:51 AM 9/13/2005, Jed Rothwell wrote:
John Coviello wrote:
My answer would be that cold fusion is still in the basic research
stage, just starting to enter commercialization stage, so it hasn't
really caught the attention of the venture capitalists yet . . .
Right. I would go even further. At this stage it may be inappropriate to
consider commercialization. Cold fusion is still at the very basic
research level, making it the sort of thing that cannot be patented. Plus,
of course, the patent office itself is blocking progress. It also appears
to be the sort of thing that is best researched using the fully open
academic model, rather than secret or semisecret corporate R&D.
Cold fusion is now at the engineering stage, well beyond the "basic"
research stage.
And as such, several devices and modifications of cold fusion can, and will
be, patented.
What is even more interesting is that in the years 2003 through 2005,
the Patent Office
frequently has cited the ramblings of Jed Rothwell and Ed Storms on vortex
(along with the plethora
of usual anti-cold fusion suspects) to block American cold fusion patents
applications.
In that light, what is also interesting is that many of their comments are
not accurate.
For example, neither (nor the usual suspects) attended the recent MIT Cold
Fusion Colloquium
where several individuals presented and did describe their reproducible
cold fusion systems.
Those attendees that were there discovered that cold fusion is well beyond
the "basic research" level;
and is now in engineering-phase.
Dr. Mitchell Swartz
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