From: Eric Walker
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 This is exactly right but Rossi has already admitted to having other patent applications in the filing stage - which have not been published. The “noise” at USPTO on Rossi’s behalf could be designed to both to keep “something” in play, but additionally to also provide a high level of disinformation to patent trolls who have already tried to “claim jump” Rossi. It is clear that Rossi has never understood what is going on in this reaction, which is only slightly different from the earlier devices of Thermacore (1992) and Mills (2003). Boron had been included in the original filing 5 years ago because Focardi probably thought neutrons were to be found. There were none - but nevertheless, keeping this detail in the filing can only be classified as disinformation. As for the patent trolls who may be trying to claim jump Rossi, as we speak, see: https://www.google.com/patents/US20140099252?dq=E-Cat <https://www.google.com/patents/US20140099252?dq=E-Cat&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Mh8oVJWsKMiTyAT2yoK4Bg&ved=0CGoQ6AEwCQ> &hl=en&sa=X&ei=Mh8oVJWsKMiTyAT2yoK4Bg&ved=0CGoQ6AEwCQ As for the patent which most resembles the Hot-Cat, it is probably this one: “Molecular hydrogen laser” US 7773656 to Mills. Of course, Rossi’s device is not a laser, but in operation it is closer than you may realized unless you have followed the SPP discussions. Fortunately for Rossi, the Hot-Cat uses the intense level of internal photon light to generate SPP which then keep the reaction going. We can see evidence of this intense photon level in some of the images of the HT. Mills’ laser, like so many of his other devices, “went nowhere,” commercially - and there appears to be no evidence that it was ever reduced to practice. Mills was most like unaware of SPP. Rossi’s patent attorney would have been smart to go for a patent of the Hot-Cat as a new use for an existing device (the BLP laser). These are called “Improvement” patents, and often are more valuable than the originating patent. The example of this, which Nolo Press uses under the category of “New Uses for Existing Inventions” is humorous. It was the simple idea of using an existing product called “Bag Balm” – which was a patented ointment used to soothe cow udders in milk processing - to treat human baldness. The court found this patentable as a new use of a known product. The new patent turned out to be extremely valuable; and it is not exactly a the work of a patent troll; since the use was apparently non-obvious (although the Dairyman who got the first patent was known to have unusually thick Ron-Reagan hair at old age :-)
