From: Daniel Rocha
If Rossi presented his reactor to the USPTO, and let them test it, wouldn't that solve the issue? I vaguely remember they have a similar rule to free energy devices. You are probably thinking of the Joe Newman saga. There is no “rule” for this, but there is every likelihood that if you can actually demonstrate a working device independently to an authority, such as a top University, then the Court system can order the patent examiner to grant a patent. Here is the long legal history of the most famous episode of this kind of dispute, where there was an actual model, and Joe Newman tried to use it to get a patent for his bogus overunity motor. Problem is – the model failed to produce the desired result, but he never acknowledged that and became rich anyway. http://openjurist.org/877/f2d/1575/newman-v-j-quigg Newman did have a model to present, and it could run for days - but of course the hundreds of batteries ran down eventually, and he often was able to stop the testing before that happened. Newman came fairly close to pulling off a scam on USPTO, and eventually became a millionaire by selling overpriced books to gullible “true believers” which claimed the government did him wrong. PT (or someone speaking for him) was right, there truly is one born every minute … Jones
