Eric,
Most of this stuff has been covered already and as you say it is a
matter of opinion.
Patents have not come up before. I presume you know the Patent Office
has a special procedure to stop or delay patents on cold fusion as they
have taken DOE's word for it that it is like perpetual motion and
impossible. The one patent Rossi has obtained in the US carefully
avoids mentioning LENR/cold fusion in order to get passed. Hence some
details about the LENR side of it are missing.
I also note that IH have applied for patents about Rossi's technology
adding the name of one of their employees as inventor. Also have taken
out patents in countries where they are not licensed to operate. So
the situation is murky to say the least. It seems strange to me for IH
to maintain that Rossi's technology doesn't work and yet apply for
patents saying that it does.
On 6/5/2016 12:14 AM, Eric Walker wrote:
On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 10:50 PM, a.ashfield <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Not clear how you arrived at that conclusion.
I got that impression from observing Rossi's poor behavior over many
years, and from observing what seems like forbearance on the part of
IH, especially as seen from hindsight, as more information trickles
in. I do not require that you arrive at the same conclusion. You
clearly have a different take on things, one that seems naive to me.
Another story is that IH never tried to find a customer and then
blamed Rossi for starting late. Or maybe didn't get all the
partners to sign the agreement with the modified test procedures
so they could claim it was invalid? Of accepted instrumentation
that they knew was unsatisfactory and then at the end complained
about it?
If IH have rebutted in a reply to a US federal court to a lawsuit
raised against it that Rossi was at fault for starting the test late
when it was in fact their own failure to obtain a customer, Rossi will
have an opportunity in Leonardo's reply to clear up this error, making
IH look very bad indeed. If IH maliciously took note a lack of a
signature on the second amendment so that they could use it to attack
the validity of the second amendment to the license agreement later
on, while playing along as though nothing were amiss, this would
definitely have been playing hardball on the part of a party
negotiating "at arm's length" with Leonardo. Again, Rossi will have
an opportunity to clarify the situation, making IH look bad. If IH
accepted instrumentation that they knew was unsatisfactory and then at
the end complained about it, this will no doubt come up in Leonardo's
reply.
The test is what a reasonable man would do.
It is hard to by any stretch of imagination to describe Rossi's
behavior as that of a reasonable person. Rossi has been his own worst
enemy, as even his admirers will attest. He succeeded in obtaining
millions of dollars in funding, with the possibility of many more, in
a field that has been starved of funding for many years, and yet he
managed to alienate the people trying to help them and then used the
money he obtained to sue them. He has filed many patent applications
with gross deficiencies and even obtained a few patents, but none are
enabling. He has carried out test after test that experts that have
debated them for years agree are lacking. He has claimed that he was
shipping this many units to this customer or about to build a factory
full of robots, while nothing of the sort was happening. He claimed
that everything was good between him and IH only a few weeks before
launching a lawsuit that he must have known was in the works for weeks
or months. I hope these are not actions that reasonable people take.
In the circumstances described by Jed (that it was impossible to
know the results) a reasonable man would have fired the ERV and
shut it down after say a week, not waited a year.
Not being privy to the details of the situation, it is difficult to
say what IH have attempted to do and what they've done, apart from
what we've read in their statement and their reply.
Eric
