A question about patents…
If the nickel catalyst turns out to be pure nickel nano-powder, but processed and prepared in a special way… Let’s say it is bombarded with fast high energy ions that produce many defects in the lattice structure of nickel nano-powder. Is the powder patentable or is the ion processing of the powder. If the same ion processing is done to copper nano-powder, is a separate patent needed to protest the IP of the nano-powder for that element or should the patent be used to protect the ion treatment of all metal nano-powders?
