Hello Mike >Google "prior art patent" > >I don't think there is much to worry about
That the patent offices themselves don't seem to be much interested in checking for prior art is cause for concern. But I agree, this Ben Gurion University patent is not something I'd worry about, as we all seem to agree. Thanks! Best Keith >Keith Addison wrote: > > >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/
