a.ashfield <a.ashfi...@verizon.net> wrote: The patent really only covers one design of reactor, that is already > probably dated. >
If the patent is inadequate, and it does not protect all of his intellectual property, Rossi should have filed a better patent, or several more. It is up to the inventor to seek adequate intellectual property protection. Since Rossi was granted a patent, it stands to reason that he could have gotten additional ones. > If someone could actually patent something that claimed Ni/LAH/Li (plus > secret stuff) . . . > You cannot claim secret stuff in a patent. You cannot withhold any information. You have to reveal every detail such that a PHOSITA can replicate. If you do not do this, the patent is invalid. > . . . produced large excess nuclear heat when heated to X C it would blow > Rossi's patent out of the water. > That would be Rossi's fault. > As you know the patent office would reject that because they have > someone like you working there who believes cold fusion is impossible. > They did not reject this patent, so you are wrong. - Jed