Hi Keith, to my knowledge,anything belong to the public domaine kan not be patented.A simple dokumentet description of the process should be enough to dismiss any patentclaim!
Fritz ----- Original Message ----- From: Keith Addison To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 2:21 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel I'd appreciate some opinions on this, if anyone would like to comment. Just to stir it up a bit, a somewhat ridiculous small company in Japan called Someya Shoten which feels it leads the world in matters biodiesel took out a patent on transesterification some years ago. So is Ben Gurion University infringing on Someya Shoten's patent? Or is the whole thing preposterous, since transesterification was invented/discovered about 150 years ago and is thoroughly in the public domain no matter who decides to patent it, and no matter which dumb patent office that doesn't check anything decides to grant the patent? Would the best advice to the Sahel group be to ignore it and just get on with it? Has anybody patented the human nose yet, or failing that, the air noses breathe? All best Keith >I had this email from a group working with biodiesel in the Sahel. If >it's true, it seems ridiculous to me. > >See: >http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/ia.jsp?IA=IL2006000622&REF=RSS >(WO/2006/126206) PRODUCTION OF BIODIESEL FROM BALANITES AEGYPTIACA > >Best > >Keith > > > >Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:20:52 +0200 > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Cc: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 11:16 AM > >Subject: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel > > > >Dear Sirs, > > > >We are supporting NGO 's and cooperatives in Afrika, > >there is a big need to produce oil from all possible plants, nuts , > >seeds of any other vegetable origine , for human consumption or for > >producing energie. > >One of the NGO ' s in the Sahel-region helps the local population to > >organise the collecting of the fruits and nuts > >to improve their oil production from the nuts of the Balanites tree. > >The Balanites tree is very popular by the population , the fruits > >are sweet amere but the juice is used as a drink and sold to the > >town , the nuts are very hard and inside, the kernel contains 40 to > >48% of oil. > >Sometimes the used as lamp-oil. > >The whole tree is very interesting for public health , on > >internet is a lot of information about that. > >The NGO will make the use as lamp-oil better by transesterification > >to obtain biodiesel that the should burn in > >small diesel cookingoven ,so that they don't have to use the wood , > >which is one of the biggest problem in this region. > >Further the don't have electricity , the have diesel generator , > >but the irrigularity in delivery and the high prices of gasoil makes > >it to difficult in using them all the time. > > > > > >The problem : > > > >There is a pattent on "the invention" to make biodiesel from > >BALANITES OIL .(WO/2006/126206) dated november 2006 by the BEN > >GORION UNIVERSITY > > > > > >Please can you inform us, Is it possible to take a patent on the > >transesterification process of oil to produce Biodiesel? > > > >Is this ALL Patent possible? > > > >Is this NEW and what is new on this invention? > > > >Is this not in contradiction with statements of many Organisations - > >World Wide - for the devellopment of POOR COUNTRIES , > > > >Thanks for your attention > > > >we remain with kind regards > > > >marc van de velde > >Leningstraat 19 > >2140 ANTWERP > >Belgium > > > > > >production and office in POLAND > ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
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