>From a presentation at ICCF from someone who clearly is very credible (and backs up everything I know / read):
http://coldfusionnow.org/message-from-iccf-18-sunday-basic-course/ My message was simple: think of something useful, describe how others can > make it happen and stipulate a feature that is new. Not complicated when > summarized in a few words, but pregnant with meaning and concepts that are > hard to absorb. > I tried hard to stay away from my favorite theme, “patenting sensibly”, > and focus on meeting US PTO requirements to patent Cold Fusion. I > circulated an email received from the US Patent Office confirming that they > will issue patents for Cold Fusion inventions if they meet the requirements > of four sections in the Patent At. These are the sections that deal with > the usefulness, novelty, inventive step, and the obligation of an applicant > to provide a description that will enable others to reproduce the invention. > The point of my presentation was: you can get a patent for something in > the field of Cold Fusion, even at the US Patent Office. I provided one > example of a success, and one example of a failure. It is this which makes me question why Rossi / Defkalion have not filed for patents to protect their work. The US is first to file. Someone may beat them to it. I hope this question is asked very strongly of the Defkalion people tomorrow during their demo.
