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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
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Subject: Re: Joseph Newman's Energy Machine (patentability)
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Date: Sat, 19-Oct-85 01:59:30 EDT
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Comments on the patentability of the magic energy machine...

>  Newman is, for the most part, a self-educated inventor (T. Edison was also
>  self-educated)...
Nice for Mr. Newman, but the bit about Edison is a complete non-sequitur;
I'm curious if this was just tossed into the parent article or is
something that Newman uses as part of his pitch.

>  ...Newman is working on a healthy paranoia concerning his difficulties in
>  obtaining a patent...
>  However, in criticism, Newman has not demonstrated his device with any
>  equipment that requires a substantial amount of power ...
...which, no doubt, gives anyone else dealing with the mechanism a healthy
paranoia (?) concerning any attempt to get a patent...He may not be
attempting to hoodwink people, fine, but non-dishonesty (sic) is not enough
reason for a patent.

>  ...I would like a more careful
>  examination of the device by some EE's and physicists with a few articles
>  describing its operation.  On the other hand, I can appreciate Newman's
>  refusal to permit this until the patent is safely in his possession.
No, this isn't the way it has to work.  Newman has no justification for a
patent until it's reasonably clear what's being patented.  If the patent
office isn't careful, they could end up granting a patent on a step-up
transformer!

If you don't understand the reason for caution in granting a patent, see
the discussion in net.graphics about how someone supposedly claims patent
rights to  xor cursors!
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Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
   ...Simpler is better.