Re: GAS-L: My first look at patent office

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 09:08:17 EST
Carefreeland@aol.com wrote:

>  Hi everyone, 
>        Last night and this morning I had my first good look at the
patent 
> office site.  I unfortunately don't know how to download software to
open the 
> tiff files they have, so I can only see a glimpse. 

..if you don't have Gnu/Linux or Mac, check out 'irfanview':

http://www.irfanview.com/


>        On the flip side, if I were to have enough money and time to
spend 

.."my" 'looping gasifier + fuel cell cycle' was born out of an intended
stupid question in the "Merlin and the apprentice"-style discussion of
high temperature carbon bed chemistry, to me from one of my funders. 

..at that stage we had agreed that all patents should belong to persons,
rather than companies, due to Norwegian law, which here compares not too
favorably with Russian law.  We also at that stage, estimated my patent 
value at 4 to 20 times the Norwegian continental shelf.  
(Norway is # 4 after Saudi Arabia, Quwait and Russia, on petroleum.)
Swedish Svedlund filed it in 1932, but never used it.  So, it flopped.

..on hearing this "stupid question", I offered to swap patents. 
And was, wisely, turned down.  ;-)

..the loop cycle patent search gave a few chills, we found a couple of 
now expired patents, which had not proven successful, and which would 
expire in 1998 and 1999.  Instead of ignoring these 2 patents and do 
"our own thing" and risk having these 2 surface later, we built our
patent
on prior art, these 2 patents, explain in detail why and how they fail, 
when we explain _exactly_ how to fix it, and patent exactly _that_.  

...as in:  "you want more than 90% electricity out of coal or biomass,
you do it my way".  ;-)


>       Oh well, onward, with a better understanding of the politics of
life as 
> usual, 
>                      
>                                      Daniel Dimiduk 



-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with kind regards from Arnt...  ;-)

  Scenarios always come in sets of three:
  best case, worst case, and just in case.

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