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Nov 14, 1990, 1:18:35 AM11/14/90
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According to the latest New Scientist (10 November, 1990), the University of
Utah has filed an International patent application (W0 90/10935) on cold
fusion. The patent was filed in March 1990 and copies are apparently now
available to the public. The inventors listed are Pons, Fleischmann, Walling
and Simons, all from the Chemistry Department at the University of Utah, so
Hawkins misses out again. The application claims protection in 40 countries
but it appears that they may have blown the International rights by
publishing an article in Fusion Technology before the application was lodged.
The US patents are probably OK as they were filed before the Fusion
Technology article was accepted. The application is apparently fairly vague
on most details beyond the requirement to simply "charge" a Pd electrode with
deuterium. Whether or not these patents have any value is ,I guess, a moot
point.


Todd Green
Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry
University of W.A.

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