Be careful not to read too much into the USPTO's stamp of "final rejection". It is not uncommon to receive this notice during the process of patent prosecution. I have issued patents, which, during the course of prosecution, got stamped "final rejection". It is time for the patent attorneys to do their work - to make counterarguments against those of the examiner.
However, if the Lugano report is being used as the basis of proof of the patent claims, then the errors in the Lugano report will certainly affect the patentability of the HotCat. Some of these errors were directly called out by the patent examiner. I believe the Lugano report is capable of being fixed in revision - at least enough to make the results and observations all self-consistent. I also believe the result of the revised Lugano calculations will still show excess heat - just not as much as claimed initially in the report. This revision of the report will be required quickly if it is to play a role in the patent arguments to overcome the examiner's objections (a shortened time of reply of 3 months was given). On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Alan Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote: > The patent office issued a "final rejection" of Rossi's patent > application. > > https://www.scribd.com/doc/258595858/USPTO-Final-Rejection-Rossi-Patent > > I'm not surprised ... he didn't reveal anything of the internal > structure or "catalysts", and recently added the Legano report as > evidence. > > I classified that as "inconclusive" -- based mainly on the > emissivity of the ceramic used, and (as for high temperature > superconductivity) there is no agreed theory for overcoming the > coulomb barrier. > > Though anyone who believes that the free-space coulomb equations > apply on to a metal/hydrogen matrix, with a sea of electrons > surrounding it, and the possibility of multi-atom quantum > conglomerates such as Bose-Einstein condensates, plasmons, phonons > etc etc ... is (IMHO) willfully-ignorantly nuts. > > The condition of cold fusion is not the same as hot fusion. (rough > quote). > >
