Lennart Thornros <[email protected]> wrote:
> To me the real catastrophe as I see it is if there is a patent and a > strong financial arm holding off the development and implementation of a > new energy source. > Someone who knows a great deal about patents and the U.S. military told me the USPO would not allow that. You cannot use a patent to suppress a technology or prevent it from reaching the market. There are regulations forbidding that. They are enforced vigorously when the technology has military value, as cold fusion clearly does. - Jed
