There is an interesting article at E-Cat World today, which summarized information submitted by AlainCo, who I believe is a regular on Vortex as well:
http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/09/30/piantelli-european-patent-revoked/ It seems that one of Piantelli's European LENR patents [1] has been revoked [2]. (I'm not 100 percent sure of this interpretation.) A number of interesting counter arguments were made in a petition to the European Patent Office [3]. The opposing party in this complaint was advocating on behalf of a similar patent by Rossi [4], with a priority date of 2008. Here is an interesting tidbit from the complaint: In this connection, it is respectfully submitted that Piantelli et al. have never got a single watt from other metals, that is different from nickel, making them react with hydrogen. It seems from the response of the European Patent Office to the petition that the matter went into oral proceedings. I have a number of questions. But it is clear that Rossi's team saw Piantelli's patent as a threat, and they appear to have prevailed over it. I can only imagine that similar challenges will be raised with Rossi's patents. I assume that each jurisdiction must be handled separately. Eric [1] http://newenergytimes.com/v2/news/2011/36/Rossi-Patent-Application-WO-2009-125444.pdf [2] http://www.e-catworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/piantellirevoke.jpg [3] http://www.e-catworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Patentchallenge.pdf [4] http://www.google.com/patents/EP2368252B1?cl=en
