Re: Prolong Patent and Slick 50

[John Graham <jgraham1@erols.com>]

Robert Myers wrote:

> At 08:58 PM 11/22/97 +0000, you wrote:
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>      George_Earle@chordiant.com wrote:
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>           Someone was saying that the two products are different and had seen the
>           patent. Do you know what the Patent # is? We could look it up.
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> Patent #4,844,825 U.S. 1.221.677 Canadian Go to <http://www.uspto.gov/>US Patent and Trademark Office Home Page
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> My son, the patent examiner, would have quite a dialog about the issuance of patents. Essentially all that is required for a patent to be issued is that "new art" (whatever that means) must be claimed and that the same "technology" cannot have already been claimed by someone else. Whether that "new technology" does what it is claimed to do has very little to do with whether or not the patent is issued.

So whats your point?

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> Snake oil is still snake oil. The claims of some sort of magical ionized substance which clings to metal is jus

> so much bull butter.

Like Zinc? If you knew what was in motor oils, you would'nt make a statment like that.

> Snake oil is still snake oil. Snake oil by any other name is still snake oil.

Thats like saying, because car ladar jammers don't work the F-17 is a fraud.I use Militec-1. GM says it works and the government gives it a part number for the navy.
Your not going to see it on tv or an auto parts store.

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