Something wrong with the patent system perhaps?
The US patent office has granted a patent on a design
for an antigravity device that, if it worked, would allow perpetual
motion, breaking its resolution to reject inventions that defy the laws
of physics.
The patent, issued to Boris Volfson, of Indiana, is based on a space vehicle propelled by a superconducting shield.
Umm, don’t you have to build a working model to get a patent?
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Yes, if you’re British. Not if you’re a yank.
Maybe the law has changed in recent years, but I was granted several patents without any recourse to working models. I simply had to describe the principle of operation, and the primary characteristics of the main building blocks of the system.
On the basis of a well documented concept, investment funds to develop a working model could then be sought.
The examiner obviously didn’t think it was a perpetual motion machine.
They can ask for a working model, but that’s exceedingly rare.
As for the first comment, I doubt the examiners usually pay any attention to the inventor’s country. But if that makes you feel better to think so….
A working model is not necessarily required for a US utility patent. The examiner may ask for whatever level of clarification he/she feels is required to properly describe the invention and its claims, and a working model or part-model may be one way of providing that.
Veeshir, US patent law differs from that in the UK in this as in other regards. I don’t think Alex’s comment referred to anything else.
James Randi also gets regularly exercised about US patents like this one, which seem to skate close to the edge of scientific reality. They don’t bother me a bit. After all, the patent is no more than a limited monopoly to make the invention – and if it doesn’t work or is not real – that monopoly is valueless. So the USPTO gave this joker a patent – so what? It makes the USPTO look a bit silly (like that’s a hard thing to do) but the real-world impact is – zero. The market will provide the true test of whether it works or not. Anyone silly enough to invest in something like this based solely on the perceived value of a patent (nationality not significant) deserves to lose their money.
llater,
llamas
PS The US patent in question is 6,960,975. Go read it.
It is so wonderfully vague and non-specific that there’s probably nothing that the examiner could properly reject it on. It doesn’t defy physical laws so much as it postulates ways of physical intercation that can be neither proved nor disproved. It seriously cites H G Wells’ novel ‘The First Men in the Moon”‘
This patent has a life of 19 years. That means that, in 20 years, anyone will be able to do what Mr Volfson has described. Review the content of the patent for yourself, compare it with what you know about the current state of physics and space exploration, and then ask yourself why a person would apply for a patent in these terms.
llater,
llamas
Arthur C. Clarke received a patent on geosynchronous communication satellites long before the technology to build and launch them was available. IIRC, the patent had expired by the time the technology was available.
Tim adds: I’m pretty sure he didn’t patent them. He wrote a story in which they appeared. The reason I think this is because he wrote another short story of alternative history, in which he tries to patent them and can’t as the original story has already been published and it is not therefore new.
(The original might actually have been in Popular Mechanics or somesuch instead of being a short story.)
And This lot – the Christmas Party enjoying, cheese eating, April-Fooling bastards. Hang them all.
METOZ will be able to create A NEW KIND OF CLEAN ENERGY.
METOZ IN THEORY IS THE PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE.
My idea is very difficult for understanding. It is not difficult for engineer – mechanic, who knows very good the Pascal’s law and even-arm lever.
THE CLEAN ENERGY
The entire world is looking for a source of clean energy. I have discovered a certain paradox basing on which a machine called METOZ can be built which by harnessing the gravitation of our EARTH can produce clean energy.
The energy producing process is demonstrated in:
http://www.nets.pl/~metozor/paradox.html
and can be very easily confirmed by an experiment.
I am also in possession of a set of calculations which prove that the METOZ machine:
1/ does not consume water / 39 A5-pictures /;
2/ does not consume compressed air / 39 A5-pictures /;
3/ produces energy to the outside = 4 839 kGm during a „swing cycle” /39 A5-pictures /;
/ this is a „weight cycle” = the centre of gravity of the water in the METOZ machine sinks ( downward movement ) /
4/ energy is produced / released to the outside = 44 600 kGm during the „straightening cycle” / 39 A5-pictures /.
/ this is a “pressure cycle” = the water mass centre of gravity inside the METOZ machine travels upwards (upward movement) /
Features: 1/; 2/; 3/; 4/, of the machine owing to appropriate dimensions of individual elements of the lever mechanism.
The METOZ has an even-arm lever of a 1.72 m length. The centre of gravity of the lever lies beneath the lever suspension point. The METOZ is equipped with two cylinders of a 1.6 m diameter each. Piston sidewalls do not contact directly with cylinder walls. The lever swing changes between 0 and 25 dgr
Figures ( 3 x 13 x 4 = 156 ) present temporary, consecutive action situations at intervals of . The middle figure presents the machine and the side figures the position of the left and right cylinder and the mathematical description of these situations.
In the past I have made two models, which confirmed the legitimacy of my theoretical assumptions concerning the METOZ machine. I have got photographs.
I am looking for a person who would be interested in my invention. I can offer ample information. I look forward to hearing from you.
http://www.nets.pl/~metozor/three_levers.html
13 – 03 -2005 Gdynia, Polska Zygmunt Orłowski
P.S. The term “gravitational paradox” use in this description relates to the mathematical and physical description of the action of the METOZ-machine.
THE EARTH GRAVITATION CAN BE THE SOURCE OF CLEAN ENERGY
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Orlowski Zygmunt
Poland 2005
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COMMENTS CONCERNING MACHINE “METOZ”
“METOZ” is able to realize the cycle “deflection” and the cycle “straighening.” Both cycles are in accordance with current physic’s laws. “METOZ” as machine can not work and hand over the energy because it would be inconsonant to the law of conservation of energy.
I propose to execute the following intelectual process:
we have found ourselves in the Europe of XVII century. We know the trigonometry in the scope of being occured for “METOZ.” We know what is the even-arm lever and moment of force too. Just appeears Mr. Baise Pascal / 1623–1662/ and he publishes his hydraulics law with adequated experiment. All thinkers are sure that this law is correct and quite real. This time someone invents machine “METOZ”. Now turn up the following questions:
1/ why the implementation of the cycle “deflection” is impossible?
2/ why the implementation of the cycle “straightening” is impossible?Both groups: opponents and followers of bulding “METOZ” live in XVII–th century and they not know that:
a/ the idea of an “energy” will be introduced into science scarlerly in mid. of XIX century,
b/ the law of conservation of the energy will be exist scarlerly after 1847 y.
QVESTION!!!
WHAT KIND OF RATIONALY ENTERELY / ARGUMENT/ CAN BE DREAMED UP THE OPPONENTS OF BUILDING THE MACHINE “METOZ’ IN XVII CENTURY.
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Please open GOOgle and klick metozor and after : index of metozor At is site that explains technical details in easy to understand language. example : http://www.nets.pl/~metozor/for_greenpeace.html or
http://www.nets.pl/~metozor/energy_for_everybody.html
Everyone is able to build just the model of METOZ machine and test it. Please, have a look at http://www.nets.pl/~metozor/supplement.html Perhaps METOZ is some duplicating machine of a clean energy.
I am inventor and owner of Metoz machine invention. Everyone can take absolutely and legitimate the METOZ invention and build the Metoz machine. I can help only. I can not build METOZ. I am moneyless. Thank you for your time and interest.
The conception of an energy is discreate one to the same as a imbecility. No one has seen the energy and no one has seen the imbecility. We are able to observe results of the energy and imbecility. At present we have got to few energy because we have got to much imbecility.
Thank you for your time and interest.
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