<div dir="ltr">That is very interesting Crispin! <div><br></div><div>Patents and stoves always makes me think of this great article..</div><div><br></div><div>''
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">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.</span>
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'' <a href="http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan-history/2015/01/24/stove-capital-detroit-history/22234051/">http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan-history/2015/01/24/stove-capital-detroit-history/22234051/</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Teddy Kinyanjui</font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Sustainability Director</font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3YUMG1TTODQ/Wh6o8gWfRmI/AAAAAAAAAyw/1bp5qqpvmwQwg5JXqL7hz-OLGSx5nSEXgCK8BGAs/s512/TK%2BEmail%2BLogo.jpg" width="200" height="100"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CookswellJikos" target="_blank"><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/97/28/BgG0H6ZN_o.png"></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cookswelljikos" target="_blank"><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/54/7e/owicmXIG_o.png"></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/cookswelljikos?lang=en" target="_blank"><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/64/b1/oh4tfzkH_o.png"></a><br></font></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 3:33 PM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crispinpigott@outlook.com" target="_blank">crispinpigott@outlook.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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. </div>
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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
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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.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">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.
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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.<br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Am all ears ...<br>
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