Looks like Rossi has gotten over the trial quickly.
1. JPR July 8, 2017 at 7:00 AM <http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=892&cpage=252#comment-1283432> Update? 2. Andrea Rossi July 8, 2017 at 2:55 PM <http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=892&cpage=252#comment-1283447> JPR: After the tests of today with my QuarkX I was probably the happiest man in the world. Warm Regards, A.R. On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > According to Abd... "All claims dropped on both sides. It is as if the > suit was never filed. All parties bear their own costs. The action of the > Agreement was the consent of counsel to settlement without any court order > other than dismissal, which is final." > > No agreements were included... so unless they present something otherwise > in a joint statement, IH retains the original E-Cat License. No money > changes hands. > > As for the future of the litigants, it looks like IH paid about $11 > million ++ for a License which according to them is worthless insofar as it > was never shown to produce excess heat. Add to that the attorney fees and > we see why many observers consider IH to be the big loser in this. > > That assumes the IP is really worthless, but it may have value in a > surprising way, even if Rossi could never make it work. Here is the granted > patent, and there are a number of applications not granted. > > https://www.google.com/patents/US9115913 > > Darden raised much more than his losses on the Rossi fiasco and there is a > small chance that he could make lemonade out of the Rossi lemons, using > some of it. An interesting development in all of this will be the course > that IH takes from here on with the remaining money. They are known to have > been funding others in LENR all along. > > Of course IH could abandon the field altogether, but maybe they have a > vision which transcends Rossigate. Possibly the best thing that could > happen is for Randell Mills to demonstrate strong gain in that SunCell > device. If it turns out that Mills device is arguably nuclear - it will not > be covered by the hydrino IP. There have already been "inside" rumors that > recent delays in the "Mills' Roadshow" are due to radioactivity showing up. > This is expected in LENR but not in hydrino-tech and it could change the IP > landscape. > > Footnote. Rossi's IP covers "Group 10 catalysts" which are nickel, > palladium and platinum. It does not cover silver, which is being used by > Mills and is Group 11. Silver is easily activated and perhaps it is > activated by dense hydrogen. Mills' IP would not cover nuclear reactions. > This puts him in a bind. If silver is required, but becomes activated, then > there is an IP storm brewing. > > If I were advising Darden, it would be to look at quickly expanding the IP > to fill the gap which exists when Mills can no longer hide the > radioactivity of the SunCell. > > >
