From: Jed Rothwell The Italian Patent Office granted a patent for the E-Cat in 2011, valid until 2028 but only in Italy.
Ø Of what POSSIBLE use is a patent valid only in Italy?!? Ø It sounds like a patent valid on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in months with R in them. Well – Italy is a country of 60 million citizens with no natural gas, little coal, the third largest economy in the Europe (eighth-largest in the world). Plus they have shown a lot of interest in LENR and would probably actively support any technology which makes them less dependent on OPEC, the USA and big oil… with one notable exception which is called ENI. This is the large petro-co in Rome which is partly owned by the government, and known for corruption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eni