[Stoves] New US Patent law change

[Anand Karve]

Dear Roger,
there are a lot of patents granted in the USA in which the claims are
not verified. Perpetual motion machines were patented again and again.
Patents were also granted in the U.S on medical ideas that were not
tested. The hair on one's body turn white or grey because the body
stops producing an enzyme called tyrosinase. If grey or white hair are
kept immersed in a solution of tyrosinase, they turn black. I was told
that somebody patented the idea of making a hair oil containing this
enzyme. The patent must have by now been time barred, because I
personally know an Indian chemist, who tried to develop such a hair
oil. But so far nobody in the world has succeeded in developing such a
product. Our Institute, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute, has
achieved a high level of credibility in India and in many other
countries. If the person offering us the patent had also provided us
with funds to develop the idea, we would have certainly accepted the
offer, but he wanted to develop and market the idea , but wanted us to
lend our name to his project. We rejected the project, because the
idea looked fishy to me.
Yours
A.D.Karve

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Fireside Hearth
<firesidehearthvashon at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Arnand,
>
>  I am at a loss to understand why a project like this with any promise of
> success might be rejected. Are you implying that something like this might
> be a farse and not detected in the patenting phase?I would like to
> understand better.
>
>  Roger
>
>> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:44:56 +0800
>> From: adkarve at gmail.com
>> To: stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org
>> Subject: Re: [Stoves] New US Patent law change
>>
>> Dear Stovers,
>> I have no knowledge of the US patent laws but it appears that patents
>> are granted in the U.S. without verifying the claims made in the
>> patent document. I was recently approached by a U.S.citizen of Indian
>> origin for commercializing in India a technology patented in the U.S.
>> He wanted to do something for India, and had therefore purchased this
>> patent, which he felt would provide energy for practically nothing. He
>> did not even want us to invest any money into the project, but only
>> wanted us to lend our name to the marketing efforts. After going
>> through the summary of the technology document, I realised that it was
>> a sort of perpetual motion machine, and therefore .I rejected his
>> offer.
>> Yours
>> A.D.Karve
>>
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Dr. A.D. Karve
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