BennyF, The patent office does not check that a product actually works. Patents are issued based on whether that particular product is owned by another patent or is something new. ...
That is generally true but there are (at least) two exceptions. Applications that claim to be "perpetual motion" machines or "over unity" devices (energy gain makers) are rejected because they cannot work.
The most important part of a patent is the final list of claims made. That is the first thing inspected as it quickly defines the field or the invention and aids in routing the application to the inspector most familiar with that field. If claim is for a "perpetual motion" machine or "over unity" device, the application goes no further, is never read. - It is just sent to the "reject letter" secretary. (If Benny persists in his "step up voltage to gain energy" ideas his application will go straight to the trash can without being read as an over unity device claim.)
In Benny's recent posts he seems to think he can patent a circuit diagram - that would be possible if it is sent in as a design or trademark application. Invention patents are issued only on original concepts, feasible or not. It is not likely there are any remaining in the more than 300 year old field of capturing and storing lightning. Certainly not just a circuit design. Adding a resister to a textbook’s circuit design would make a new original circuit. A new concept, with or without a circuit design, is what is required
To get a patent, the application must also demonstrate an understanding of the problems* of the field and how the new invention solves those problems. That is why the first few pages (often half the total application text) of an invention application describe the prior art and then the text transitions to how your application is an improvement or solves some existing unsolved problem.
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*Benny is extremely lacking in understanding of the problems of this filed and holds several erroneous ideas such as stepping up voltage produces more energy, that voltage does not drop across the inductance of capacitors and wires, about new voltage breakdown arcs, especially when nearby metal is exposed to UV from other arcs, etc.
I have tried to educate him a little, but he is stubborn and resists learning. However, my efforts have not been entirely lost as some others have learned from my posts, but there is not much more I can explain, so this is probably my last post in this thread.
P.S. to
Captain Kremmen
I regret to inform you that you are at least 50 years too late with your post 317 invention. As a graduate student, I worked two summers at LASL, which is an isolated, very male dominated community. In desperation for female companionship, I when down the hill into the valley to visit the Indian community (San el De Fanso). There I saw several of your inventions, one was even an improved version – Its hanging bottles were filled with water, so it was never a flying kite. I asked why its bottles were water filled and was told that flies see their image magnified and are scared away. It seemed to do this job well too. Forewarned about the lack of women, the second summer I brought my own – we lived in the married graduate student's quarters, but were not married; LASL just thought we were.
My visit to San el De Fanso Pueblo was not successful. From the looks of young male Indians, I quickly understood that I was not the first horny "Anglo" to arrive. So, I bought a thunder bird silver ring from an old squaw and left without injury. She wanted to sell me the much more expensive Squaw Blossom turquoise and silver** neckless (they promote fertility in women) but I explained that sadly I had no need of that at present.
**The largest piece of silver is sort of the shape of an inverted "U" and always at the bottom center of the neckless. - I am quite sure that symbolically it represent the womb (and/or other closely related parts of the female anatomy).
