Jones— ;You noted:
“We now understand why almost everyone else's patent application was denied or languished, and it has nothing to do with violating the Laws of Physics or Thermodynamics, nor to a hostile hot fusion establishment. There was, in fact, a valid patent granted for LENR.” I think the PO would normally inform an applicant of why their patent is rejected including the existence of conflicting patents. . I would guess it was because of the unofficial PO handling of cold fusion patents, such handling intended to discourage further invention in the cold fusion arena, consistent with the infamous action the government took regarding P&F. Bob Cook From: Jones Beene<mailto:jone...@pacbell.net> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 10:13 AM To: Vortex List<mailto:vortex-l@eskimo.com> Subject: [Vo]:The Gupta Patent of early 1989 Here is a strange bit of history which seems to have been somehow overlooked and misplaced. It almost reads like "alternate facts".... The Fleischmann/ Pons announcement of cold fusion happened on March 23, 1989. Ostensibly this date was forced on them by concerns about the competing work from Steven Jones at BYU, but there was another more specific threat. Perhaps their rush was not BYU but concern over a competing line of research which Fleischmann had participated in, going all the way back to the 1970s. These were palladium metal lattice experiments described by B. Dandapani (and Fleischmann as coauthor) in the Journal of Electronal. Chemistry, 39, in 1972 and later. On March 31, 1989 - 8 days after the hurried Utah announcement the following patent was actually filed by Gupta and Jacobs in the USA, and it was soon GRANTED ! And then it was almost completely ignored today, even though it undercuts the IP claims of others and actually mentions "dense hydrogen" as the operative mechanism. Yet, the IP was not commercially useful, probably due to the high cost of palladium. It is now in the public domain. "Process and apparatus for generating high density hydrogen in a matrix" US 4986887 https://www.google.com/patents/US4986887 That's right - the first LENR filing was actually granted by the Patent Office - so there is no wonder why later filings did not succeed. There was and still is - a lot of whining going on - but no evidence of a "grand conspiracy" by insiders in Hot Fusion, although they did not agree there was a breakthrough. Plus, there is no way Gupta could have based his IP on "stealing the P&F work" since it normally takes months to draft a decent patent filing and several days to get it to USPTO by mail, and Gupta had published on the subject before 1989. We now understand why almost everyone else's patent application was denied or languished, and it has nothing to do with violating the Laws of Physics or Thermodynamics, nor to a hostile hot fusion establishment. There was, in fact, a valid patent granted for LENR.
