The USPTO has an 18 month embargo on publication, which is optional and not required - and they chose not to avail themselves of the delayed publication. That is a strategy choice. You can find this stature online: (35 U.S.C. 122 Confidential status of applications)
The implication is that they want to get the most basic version of the device protected and in front of the public immediately if possible. These is a very limited scope patent – and could get through, but it may not protect very much. There is no mention of isotopes or a particular catalyst. This means that they cannot protect the use of any catalyst, other than as a trade secret, but catch-22 – if the devices is not described well enough so that a practitioner “skilled in the art” can make and use it, they are in trouble on the basic claim. This is the so-called “enablement requirement” of 35 U.S.C. 112. The purpose of the requirement that the specification describe the invention in such terms that one skilled in the art can make and use the claimed invention is to ensure that the invention is communicated to the interested public in a meaningful way. Thus if MFMP can replicate the device for any gain, then Rossi is in a good position. From: Frank Acland Maybe Industrial Heat is using the USPTO's fast track service for this one: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/init_events/Track_One.jsp … why did this patent show up already? It was only filed in april of this year. Application Number Filing Date Patent Number 61818553 May 2, 2013 61819058 May 3, 2013 61821914 May 10, 2013 Ron Kita wrote: Greetings Vortex-L, http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=20140326711.PGNR.&OS=DN%2F20140326711&RS=DN%2F20140326711 Ad Astra, Ron Kita, Chiralex Doylestown PA -- Frank Acland Publisher, E-Cat World <http://www.e-catworld.com>
