First off - I don't think its possible to give just a yes or no answer - of course it is, but it is meaningless ..Roxaway59 wrote:Fletcher I would like to ask you and others on the forum this question.
Lets say that you had a really great week and you managed to find the prime mover for Besslers wheel and actually got a wheel going over unity. Do you think you would be able to patent it in the West? Yes or No only.
Then you decide to start experimenting with cold fusion and amazingly with a unique technique you find that its possible and you are producing lots of heat energy that can only be coming from the atom. Do you think that you would be able to patent it in the West therefore protecting your intellectual property and hard work meaning money in the bank and perhaps the Nobel prize? Yes or No only.
Graham
There used to be umpteen dozen topics on this forum about it years ago - jim_mich was a strong advocate for it, and others, mainly wanting financial independence which is not unreasonable - while many others were like JC for his same reasons ..
Personally I haven't given it any serious thought as it's a bit blue-sky for me atm (now there's an irony), until that Prime Mover is found and its modus operandi totally explainable and understood ..
What I remember of the discussions can be summarized into this IINM ..
The USA has first to patent rights ..
Most of the rest of the western world is first to invent (not first to patent) i.e. must have documented proof that you were the first to invent a unique, fathomable, coherent concept that fully described in cause and effect terms the path to your free-energy/OU/PM technology ..
Most countries afaik, but particularly the USA, require a "working" model demonstration to an examiner of your free-energy/OU/PM technology doing what you say it can do, before they will grant a patent .. i.e. show and tell session .. not just a tell with some pics ..
At the same time most countries have a national security 'get out of/into jail' clause if your invention is deemed to prejudice national security interests etc .. this is to stop wack jobs trying to patent things like weapons of mass destruction or biological weapons etc - well, that the public spin ..
So in short, a mechanical Prime Mover mech that enables an everlasting excess imbalance wheel, or an excess of heat energy as a basis for an thermal engine that required no visible energy input but was not published nuclear knowledge, then I would say as long as you supply a "working prototype" (demonstrable proof) to the examiner legally he'd be hard pressed to turn your patent application down ..
But a wise man might have some insurance up his sleeve to make sure everyone plays nicely and fairly with him ..