Michael Foster <[email protected]> wrote: I've been following this discussion for a while and now I think Mr. Rossi > needs to be aware that his intellectual property claims may be in danger.
He knows that. Many people have advised him of that, including me. > I can understand that he would like to have it both ways. He would like to > have a patent and he would like to keep the essential ingredients a secret. He does not want to keep the essential ingredients a secret. He has to do that for now, until he gets a patent. He realizes that he cannot keep the ingredients a secret after they begin selling machines. Many people will reverse-engineer them. Since he is an experienced businessman, I assume he asked Essen for an NDA (non-disclosure agreement) before sending him the samples. I assume that is why Essen has not published an entire spectrum of the samples. The information Essen has revealed does not seem to endanger Rossi's intellectual property, as far as I can see, but I could be wrong about that. Essen's comments have confused the issues, but that's what you have to expect from cutting edge research. The data is a mish-mash of truth and error. People get the wrong impression. They say one thing, then contradict themselves later. See the quote from Segre, "Fire from Ice," p. 22, describing Hahn and Meitner: "Their early papers are a mixture of error and truth as complicated as a mixture of fission products resulting from the bombardments. Such confusion was to remain for a long time the characteristic of much of the work on uranium." > It's called the best mode requirement. If you file a patent and do not > disclose the best mode, your patent is invalid. Yes. Many inventors play a cat and mouse game with the Patent Office, revealing just enough to satisfy the letter of the law, while hiding as much as they can. I hope that Rossi does not do that. > I'm still not entirely certain that the whole thing isn't a hoax, although > I can't really see what the purpose would be. Mr. Rossi's problem, assuming > his device works, is that his invention is too important. He knows this. He > has a tiger by the tail and his bizarre behavior is no doubt a > manifestation. That's an interesting theory. No doubt he is under a lot of pressure. He certainly does have the tiger by the tail, and he is well aware of that. - Jed
