[Stoves] a bit more on turning plastic into fuel..Its rather well known and really applicable to us as stove and biofuels makers

[Cookswell Jikos]

That is very interesting Crispin!

Patents and stoves always makes me think of this great article..

''

Stoves were really America's first mass-marketed, had-to-have durable good.
The market was wide open. Traveling salesmen and agents hit the roads. The
industry was competitive in the extreme and design was seen as the way to
beat your competitors.

Professor Howell J. Harris in his fascinating study of the stove industry
called "Conquering Winter" states that in the late 1840s, the U.S. Patent
Office issued almost 90 percent of all design patents for stoves, and it
remained above 50 percent for the next decade.  Everything was patented,
even scroll or flower designs for certain models. At the same time the
stove manufacturers differentiated their products through functional
features, such as plate warmers, water tanks, adjustable racks, and
hundreds more, all patented.
''
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan-history/2015/01/24/stove-capital-detroit-history/22234051/

Teddy Kinyanjui
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On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 3:33 PM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <
crispinpigott at outlook.com> wrote:

> Dear AD
>
> The answer is quite simple: some countries are 'inspecting' and others are
> not. South Africa, for example, is not. You can apply for, and register a
> patent on water as a 'universal solvent' and it will be granted.
>
> A patent is a license to sue. If you want to waste your money on invalid
> and unforceable patents, ‎lawyers will take it. So will the patent office.
> Any patent can be challenged, and they frequently are. To defeat one all
> you have to do is show prior art that was not put into the public domain by
> irregular means.
>
> Inspecting countries like the USA inspect the available records to see if
> it is likely to stand up in court. Generally, a patent is only considered
> valid if it has been upheld in an American court, which costs $180,000.
>
> Regards
> Crispin
>
>
> The persons who file such fraudulent patents either don't care to see what
> others have done, or they are charlatans, and the officers in the patent
> office are ignorant or corrupt. A moving drum biogas model which one can
> see in all textbooks, was given an Indian patent, a few years ago. I don't
> know how the applicant managed to get it. In any case, our organization has
> installed several hundred such biogas plants and a plastic tank
> manufacturing firm is selling them by the hundreds and so far nobody has
> challenged us.
> Yours
> A.D.Karve
>
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>
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>
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:42 PM, Richard Stanley <
> rstanley at legacyfound.org> wrote:
>
>> Teddy Kinyanjui's recent attached article ref. plastics conversion to
>> gaseous fuel triggered a recollection fo a JApanese researcher a few years
>> back. A simple google search showed that it is progressing widely across
>> our shared planet; Its no longer new at all. Am surprised that the Kenyan
>> gentileman could even get a patent for it.
>> What is new is the fact that we we all know getting the temperature  up
>> while reducing oxygen pyrolizes then gassifies ordinary  plastic wastes
>> styrafoam included to carbon powder and releases a clean burning gaseous
>> fuel.
>>
>> This is great opportunity to leap frog the whole negative  issue about
>> biomass fuels; Plastic containers are typically called the national flower
>> of much of the developing nations.
>>
>> Am all ears ...
>> Richard Stanley
>>
>>
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