I very much agree about unpatentable theory.
Perhaps the claim that sets it apart from ost if not all of teh previous
water arc systems is claim 41
"The electrochemical power system of Claim 40 further comprising one or
more solid fuel reactants to form at least one of the conductor, source
of catalyst, the catalyst, the source of atomic hydrogen, and the atomic
hydrogen."
Does this indicate that water adsorbed onto some kind of catalyst allows
something more to happen than is normally the case. Perhaps such
surfaces have been important in previous water arc systems but perhaps
also this was not fully appreciated.
Nigel
On 01/02/2014 19:06, Jones Beene wrote:
*From:*James Bowery
If Mills discloses he deserves credit for that.
By "discloses" I mean what the patent office means: Provides
sufficient information in the patent disclosure for those skilled in
the art to realize beneficial use independent of the inventor.
You've seen his recent patent application. Even at 325 pages - does it
disclose anything that the other patents relating to electrical
discharge through water have missed?
Or is it "designed to deceive" -- which seems to be the consensus here
on Vortex, when we discussed this patent application earlier.
There are well over 2 million hits on google relating to patents for
electrical discharge through water. Where is the novelty in Mills?
... other than, of course, the bald claim that the discharge is not
really through water nor through HHO but is through Mills version in
which one of the hydrogen atoms is in a reduced orbital making it more
of a catalyst... and even then, Mills has not shown that the HHO
species of prior art does not, in fact, conform identically to his
version.
I feel sorry for the BLP attorneys. They have surely told him that
theories are not patentable no matter how great they are. I doubt if
the attorneys are as incompetent as this application suggests. Most
likely they were ordered to do the impossible: which is to try to
patent a device which has been known in prior art for decades.
Jones
