This patent (like several others in LENR) resulted in litigation and has been abandoned - IIRC - essentially for nonpayment of fees. IOW there is no government issue.
This means that it goes into the public domain - not that later inventors can prevail if they essentially try to cover the same technology; and if this patent would have invalidated part of Piantelli's (or anyone else's) before it lapsed, that situation does not change. I am of the opinion that due to Thermacore, in combination with this one, and the patent of P&F - that no basic patent in the field can prevail. Rossi's claims are a joke. That is essentially why he has been forced to remain secretive. The 'wild card' in the Intellectual Property situation is a later filing by Rossi (reported here some months ago) which was supposed to have gone to publication by October (there is an 18 month lag). It would have named the secret catalyst and that would be valuable, needless to say. As far as I know, this later application has not been published yet - it could have been withdrawn or delayed. Jones -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] -------------------- Lastly some recent results obtained with Ahern's nano-powders are in abstracts "Mt-01", "Mt-02" and "GL-02" at the compilation of the Feb-2011 ICCF-16 "16th Intl Conf on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science" http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Srinivasaniccfthinte.pdf It seems like the patent issue may be a problem, especially since there is some U.S. government ownership. The patent seems to explain the enhanced fusion (or other nuclear reaction) rates, but does not appear to account for the thermalization of high-energy gammas or neutrons. I welcome others' impressions. Thanks, Lou Pagnucco
