On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Patrick Ellul <ellulpatr...@gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.cobraf.com/forum/immagini/R_123564999_3.pdf > In this document an intellectual property law firm requests on Rossi's behalf reconsideration of his September 2010 US patent application, making several amendments. The 2010 application is here: http://www.google.com/patents/US20110005506 Among the amendments is the dropping of claim (8), which had to do with the catalyst: 8. A method according to claim 1, characterized in that in said method catalyze materials are used. Presumably a patent application that requires that one both be knowledgeable in the art and also have access to a secret catalyst did not pass muster with the patent examiner. Scanning over the original patent application, a number of details caught my eye that I had heard about in one or another connection but did not recall from where: - The notion that there is proton capture in nickel. - Mention of the boron shielding. - Mention of the lead shielding. - Mention of the shielding being used to prevent radiation from escaping the copper tube. No doubt some or many of these details have changed in connection with more recent iterations of the E-Cat. I'm guessing that it's in Rossi's interests to make the minimal changes necessary to the application to keep it alive, or otherwise risk having to file a new application and move the date of priority forward. For that reason perhaps there has been no attempt to remove the parts about proton capture, for example; I assume they have since discovered that any proton capture is a minor process if it occurs at all, but I could obviously be wrong on this detail. The idea of proton capture goes back at least to Piantelli, and it appears to have been inherited by Rossi as the default explanation as of the writing of the 2010 application. Just a wild, uninformed guess, but I wonder if this request is a moonshot by the patent attorneys to keep the 2010 patent application in play. Rossi probably needs to file a new patent application. I'm guessing that a new application would look pretty different in its details. Eric
