Sunday, December 25, 2016

USPTO Conspiracy VI

USPTO Conspiracy VI

To be honest I have no idea why this flawed patent (US 9,308,490) is citing mine (US pat 6,766,817) since I provided the core Hydrological background for lay people to improve their comprehension on this issue of hydrodynamics regarding fluid movement on porosity systems. It seems that lay people behind wick/wicking neither understand Hydrology nor the functioning of oil lamps. Wicks connect the fuel in the liquid compartment to the flame on the top moving the fluid upward as Unsaturated Hydraulic Flow. Wicks can never be set in the bottom of an oil lamp for drainage as it becomes Saturate Flow. I am curious if my issued patent was read by any of them, inventors, patent attorneys, and examiners; or even if any of them has any hydrological background.
US pat 6,766,817  (BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION - 3rd paragraph) - A fluid that possesses a positive pressure can be generally defined in the field of hydrology as saturated fluid. Likewise, a fluid that has a negative pressure (i.e., or suction) can be generally defined as an unsaturated fluid. Fluid matric potential can be negative or positive. For example, water standing freely at an open lake, can be said to stand under a gravity pull. The top surface of the liquid of such water accounts for zero pressure known as the water table or hydraulic head. Below the water table, the water matric potential (pressure) is generally positive because the weight of the water increases according to parameters of force per unit of area. When water rises through a capillary tube or any other porosity, the water matric potential (e.g., conventionally negative pressure or suction) is negative because the solid phase attracts the water upward relieving part of its gravitational pull to the bearing weight. The suction power comes from the amount of attraction in the solid phase per unit of volume in the porosity.
What is the point of ignoring common knowledge and issued patents?
It does not make sense unless they are aliens from another dimension bearing a different Logical system in their minds different from commonplace on earth! They cannot be stupid because they must have had some educational background that missed principles of simple honesty and fairness.

Children playing soccer learn soon that any person daring to hold a whistle as referee must know the rules and be impartial, otherwise the game is not fun anymore having distortion in the outcome – so, science is becoming a cheating issue. The explanation is quite simple and very down-to-earth for such conditions. I got PhD at the Pennsylvania State University, but I had to school myself about Philosophy of Science in my title. Higher education in the US and near everywhere is releasing titles of PhD not requiring any learning on the functioning of science. So, scientist in general do not know much about Epistemology, Metaphysics, Logics, and History of Science. I read a book ‘Theory of Science, An Introduction to the History, Logic, and Philosophy of Science’, by George Gale, University of Missouri, 1979, McGraw-Hill. I contacted the author as his book was out of press showing the issue had not been so successful in the academic environment. It seems that scientists were not interested on learning how science works, not even for their titles. The truth is quite appalling as science is pretty much more limited than what society is made to believe in. There is a human curiosity to know but, lots of pretension to believe they know it. How did life started? We will never know it as we came afterwards, and there will be no way to make certain it happened in an assured way as doubt persists forever. Epistemology is teaching it: ‘What can I know and how do I know that I know it?’ Is the universe expanding or contracting? If we do not know how big the universe is, why can we imply anything about expansion and/or contraction? Is there life in another planet? If we do not know how big the universe is, we have no way of checking all planets to find life. Then, the honest answer is, we do not know it. On the other hand, we indeed know that the spreading obesity is a sign that we are not adapted to the new conditions of modern world providing excessive machinery that replaces human muscles and plenty of energetic food that becomes stored as fat in our bodies bearing an old physiology created from different past conditions. Sometimes people claiming to know a lot miss the chance of peeking at a mirror and applying some brain resources on their own good. Everybody behind wick/wicking had no care to open a Hydrology/Hydrogeology/Soil Physics book to understand our present knowledge of fluid moving on porosity system and if there is wick/wick terminology in a classic science Hydrology that started around 70,000 years ago when man invented oil lamps. Oil lamps always will have wicks but the hydrology functioning between the hydraulic zones can be much more complex than keeping a flame for lighting. Also, wicks need mechanical resistance to high temperature of flames to preserve the porosity for fuel feed.
Why is patent US 9,308,490 flawed?
Like portrayed at Figure 3.20 p. 89 of Physical and Chemical Hydrogeology from Dominico & Schwartz, the Zone of negative pressure potential, the fluid flows upward by capillarity and is called by the Classical Hydrology/Soil Physics/Hydrogeology as Unsaturated Hydraulic Flow or wicking for lay people. Fluid only flows downward inside the Zone of Positive Pressure Potential, called Saturated Hydraulic Flow. Fluid flows in response to a Hydraulic Gradient, as it goes up when it is negative, or down when it is positive. People behind wick/wicking neither understands Hydrology nor the functioning of oil lamps, as wick works moving fluid toward the flame within the Zone of Negative Pressure Potential.

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Rajesh Vallabh
Counsel                                                                                  
Boston
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Education

Southern Methodist University, B.S. in Electrical Engineering,
Southern Methodist University, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering,
Columbia Law School, J.D

Patent Examiner: Anthony.Shumate@uspto.gov
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Claims


13. The heat exchanger of claim 1, wherein each of said membrane-plate assemblies includes wicking material or screen material in the gap between the plate structure and each membrane.

14. The heat exchanger of claim 13, wherein the wicking material or screen material provides desiccant spreading, mixing, or turbulence to desiccant flowing through the gap between the plate structure and each membrane.

In some embodiments, the diamond mesh comprises a co-extruded plastic and an adhesive. In some embodiments, the plastic is coated with an adhesive in a separate process step. In some embodiments, the second support plate provides a second screen and mesh and faces a second air gap containing a second air turbulator. In some embodiments, a so constructed membrane plate assembly is provided with multiple liquid supply- and drain ports so that uniform liquid distribution is achieved across the surfaces of the membrane and support plates. In some embodiments, the ports are reconfigurable so that the air can be directed in either a horizontal or vertical fashion across the membranes. In some embodiments, the air turbulator is constructed so that it is effective for either horizontal or vertical air flow. In some embodiments, the liquid ports can be configured so that the cooling fluid is always flowing against the direction of the air flow so that a counter-flow heat exchange function is obtained. In some embodiments, the drain ports to the plate are constructed in such a way as to provide a siphoning of the leaving liquids thereby creating a negative pressure between the support plates with respect to atmospheric pressure and a negative pressure between the support plate and the membrane ensuring that the membrane stays flat against the screening material or wicking fabric. In some embodiments, the main seals in between the support plates are constructed so as to provide a self-draining function so no liquids stay inside the membrane plate system. In some embodiments, such self-draining seals create separate areas for the liquid desiccants and for the cooling fluids so that a leak in one of the seals will not affect the other fluid. In other embodiments the support plate is only partially covered by a membrane, thereby providing an additional area for sensible only cooling. In some embodiments the partially covered support plates encounter a vertical air flow and an also vertical heat transfer fluid flow directed in a direction opposite or counter to the air flow. In some embodiments the partially covered support plate supports a horizontal air flow and an also horizontal heat transfer fluid flow directed primarily in a direction counter to the air flow. In some embodiments the glue dots are minimized to take advantage of the siphoning of the liquids leaving the channels of the plate thereby maximizing the available membrane area. 


Lockheed Martin is an American global aerospace, defense, security and advanced technologies company with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington, DC, area. Lockheed Martin employs 126,000 people worldwide. Marillyn Hewson is the current President and Chief Executive Officer.

Lockheed Martin is one of the largest companies in the aerospace, defense, security, and technologies industry; it is the world's largest defense contractor based on revenue for fiscal year 2014.[3] In 2013, 78% of Lockheed Martin's revenues came from military sales;[4] it topped the list of US federal government contractors and received nearly 10% of the funds paid out by the Pentagon.[5] In 2009 US government contracts accounted for $38.4 billion (85%), foreign government contracts $5.8 billion (13%), and commercial and other contracts for $900 million (2%).[6].

I am curious how much Hydrological background colleges of Electrical Engineering are providing nowadays because Lockheed Martin is employing Electrical Engineers to develop fluidic devices and it seems that they are not opening Hydrology books or reading issued patents. Electrical Engineers are aware about Electrical Conductivity, so on fluidic devices they should try Hydraulic Conductivity because wicking is not portrayed in the Hydrology textbooks.

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Suffolk University Law School, J.D., 1990
Boston University, B.SElectrical Engineering 1985

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[0004] The present invention generally relates to heat-transfer systems and, in particular, to a bendable heat pipe having an axial wick insert.

[0007] Some conventional heat pipes, particularly heat pipes intended for use in low-gravity environments utilize arteries, i.e. channels, to provide capillary pressure to circulate the liquid-phase working fluid from the condenser to the evaporator. Some low-gravity heat pipes provide arterial 
wicks wherein the arteries carrying the liquid-phase working fluid are separated from the gas-phase region by a capillary-scale slot or a fine-weave mesh. Conventional arterial heat pipes, however, are susceptible to bubble-induced failures and, in addition, may fail to prime properly in a low-gravity environment. Bubbles may form in the liquid working fluid, such bubbles being particularly persistent in the presence of non-condensable gases, i.e. gases other than the heat pipe working fluid, that may be present as impurities or may evolve by chemical reaction during operation of the heat pipe.

[0008] Certain conventional arterial heat pipes may provide one or more 
wicks as an insert within the gas-phase region of the heat pipe. Wick inserts having machined structures may have limited flexibility, thereby presenting a challenge for use in deployable heat management systems, and inserted wick inserts having porous structures may have substantially lower heat transport capabilities, thereby presenting a challenge for use in a high-performance system such as may be required on space vehicles.

[0009] The present invention generally relates to heat-transfer systems and, in particular, to a bendable heat pipe having an axial 
wick insert.

[0020] FIG. 4 is a perspective view of an exemplary 
wick insert according to certain aspects of the present disclosure.

[0029] FIGS. 12A-12C depict an exemplary configuration of a 
wick insert within a bellows tube in a flexible portion of a heat pipe according to certain aspects of the present disclosure.

[0030] FIGS. 13A-13B depict another embodiment of a flexible 
wick insert that can be bent in multiple directions according to certain aspects of the present disclosure.

[0031] The present invention generally relates to heat-transfer systems and, in particular, to a bendable heat pipe having an axial 
wick insert.

[0037] FIG. 4 is a perspective view of an exemplary 
wick insert 150 according to certain aspects of the present disclosure. In this embodiment, the wick insert comprises two elements 152 and 154. Element 152 comprises a separator plate 160 and a plurality of tabs 162 extending from a lower tab portion 164 on each side of the separator plate 160. Element 154 comprises a similar separator plate 161 and a plurality of tabs 163 extending from a lower tab portion 165 on each side of the separator plate 161. The wick insert element 154 comprises an inclined portion 161A and extended tabs 163A, which are discussed in greater detail with respect to FIG. 7. In this example, the separator plate 160 of element 152 comprises an extension 160A that will be disposed within the flexible portion 120 when the heat pipe 100 is assembled. In certain embodiments, the extension 160A does not have the lower tab portion 164 or the tabs 162. In certain embodiments, the extension 160A extends into the evaporator portion 130 when the heat pipe 100 is assembled and overlaps the separator plate 161 of the element 154. The function of this overlap is discussed in greater detail with respect to FIG. 5. In certain embodiments, the elements 152 and 154 each comprise attachment tabs 180 configured to be attached to the flexible portion 120 so as to locate the wickinsert 150 with respect to the flexible portion 120 and prevent displacement of the wick insert 150 as the heat pipe 100 bends. The attachment of attachment tabs 180 is discussed in greater detail with respect to FIG. 6C. Vent holes 170 are visible in the separator plate 160 of the condenser portion 110, and are discussed in greater detail with respect to FIGS. 10A & 10B. The labels E-E indicate the location of the cross-sectional view shown in FIG. 7. A wick insert 150 may be particularly advantageous for use with outer tubes 112, 132 that are made from certain metals, e.g. nickel and Invar, that cannot easily be extruded with lengthwise grooves, such as shown in FIG. 11, to locate a wick insert.

[0039] The 
wick insert elements 152 and 154 are disposed within the outer tubes 112 and 132, respectively, and the wick insert element 152 extends through the bellow tube 190 and into the outer tube 132 where extension 160A overlaps the separator plate 161 of the wick insert 154. The wick inserts 152, 154 acts as barrier to form two distinct passages within the outer tubes 112, 132 and bellows tube 190. As the flexible portion 120 moves from the straight position to the flexed position, the elements of the flexible portion 120 bend about a neutral axis 151. Elements that are on an outer side of the neutral axis 151 will tend to stretch while elements that are on an inner side of the neutral axis 151 will tend to compress. As the separator plates 160, 161 are on the outer side of neutral axis 151, the separator plate 160 will pull away from the separator plate 161. The overlap of the extension 160A with the separator plate 161 maintains the continuity of the separator plates 160, 161 along the single axial chamber 200. The ability to maintain the continuity of the separator plates 160, 161, and therefore maintain the separation of the portions of the single axial chamber 200 that are above and below the separations plates 160, 161, is one feature that allows the assembled heat pipe 100 to be bent after fabrication while maintaining its heat transfer capability.

[0040] In the example embodiment, a spring 196 is disposed inside and constrained by the bellows 190 in the vapor-phase portion of the single axial chamber 200. The spring 196 is also constrained by the 
wick insert element 152. The spring 196 enables the wick insert element 152 to deform during flexure without buckling. As shown in FIG. 5, in the flexed position the bellows 190 and the spring 196 are bent so that at their radial edges the bellows 190 have a compressed inner side and an expanded outer side near the inner walls of the braided sleeve 192. Similarly, the spring 196 has an expanded radial edge and a compressed radial edge. As depicted in FIG. 5, the expanded spring radial edge is disposed against the separator plate 160 of the wick insert element 152 and the compressed spring radial edge is disposed against the bellows 190 inner diameter. It will be apparent to those of skill in the art that the flexible portion 120 may also be bent in the opposite manner where the expanded spring radial edge is disposed against the bellows 190 inner diameter and the compressed spring radial edge is disposed against the separator plate 160.

[0041] FIGS. 6A-6D are cross-sectional views of the heat pipe 100 of FIG. 3 according to certain aspects of the present disclosure. FIG. 6A shows the 
wick insert element 152 disposed within the outer tube 112 at location A-A. The wick insert 152 in the condenser portion 110 may be graded by the use of a splitter 115 that separates the liquid passage into two or more distinct sub-passages 202 and 203. The wick insert 152 contacts the inner wall of the outer tube 112, which comprises grooves 113, at the lateral corners of the separator plate 160 and the tips of the tabs 162 and the divider 115. The contact between the corners of the separator plate 160 and the grooves 113 is discussed in greater detail with respect to FIG. 6E. In operation, there will be a gas-phase flow 220 in the gas-phase passage 201 that is above the separator plate 160 and liquid-phase flows 225 and 230 in the arteries 202 and 203, respectively. The separator plate 160 has vent holes 172 in the region over the divider 115. Vent holes should have a diameter that is greater than or equal to the capillary pumping dimension of the liquid passage, which may be characterized by either the hydraulic diameter or the largest circle that can be inscribed within a cross-section of the liquid passage taken perpendicular to the tube centerline. Vent holes 172 are discussed in greater detail with respect to FIGS. 9A and 10A.

[0043] FIG. 6B shows the 
wick insert element 152 disposed within the outer tube 112 at location B-B. In the heat pipe 100 of FIG. 3, the divider 115 does not extend the full length of the condenser 110 and is not present at location B-B, leaving a single liquid-phase artery 204 that is in fluid communication with the arteries 202 and 203. In operation, there is a liquid-phase flow 235 that will divide into flows 225 and 230 when the flow 235 reaches the divider 115. In the region where there is no divider 115, the separator plate 160 has vent holes 174, which may be larger than the vent holes 172, that are discussed in greater detail with respect to FIGS. 9B and 10B. The labels F-F indicate the location of the enlarged view of FIG. 6E.

[0044] FIG. 6C depicts the attachment of the attachment tabs 180 of the 
wick insert element 154 to the outer tube 132 of the evaporator portion 130 by, for example, spot welds 182. Also visible is the extension 160A that, in this example, is underneath the separator plate 161 such that that extension 160A is captured between the inner wall of the outer tube 132 and the separator plate 161.

[0051] FIGS. 9A-9B are cross-sections of an example evaporation portion 410 of a heat pipe 400 showing the size of inscribed circles within the liquid-phase arteries 402, 403 according to certain aspects of the present disclosure. FIG. 9A depicts an outer tube 412 with a 
wick insert 452 having a separation plate 462 forming a gas-phase passage 401 and a single liquid-phase artery 402. The largest circle that can be inscribed within the cross-sectional area of the liquid-phase artery 402 is shown as the dashed-line circle 440.

[0052] When the 
wick insert 452 is installed into the tube 412, the tips of the plurality of tabs 462 are displaced inward while in contact with the inner surface of the tube 412 such that reaction forces 453 applied by the tube to the tips of the plurality of tabs 462 together provide a net downward force 454 on the wick insert 452. This downward force serves to maintain the lateral edges 466 in contact with or proximate to the inner surface of the tube 412.

[0056] FIG. 11 depicts an alternate configuration of a heat pipe 500 according to certain aspects of the present disclosure. Two narrow and opposing indents 490 penetrate outwards into the walls 432 of one or both of the condenser portion 110 and the evaporator portion 130. Each indent 490 provides a relatively small gap on the container internal surface into which a 
wick insert 490 is placed and retained. In the evaporator portion 130, the wick insert extension 492 may fit under the wick insert 490, similar to the configuration of extension 160A and separator plate 161 shown in FIG. 4, and into the same indents 490.

[0057] FIGS. 12A-12C depict an exemplary configuration of a 
wick insert 550 within a bellows tube 590 in a flexible portion 520 of a heat pipe according to certain aspects of the present disclosure. FIG. 12A depicts a partial cutaway view of a flexible portion 520 of a heat pipe, showing a braided sleeve 592 surrounding a bellows tube 590 within which is disposed a wick insert 550 and a spring 596, similar to the flexible portion 120 of FIG. 5. The separator plate 560 of the wick insert 550 separates the gas-phase passage 601 from the liquid-phase artery 604. The labels G-G indicate the location of the view of FIG. 12B.

[0060] FIGS. 13A-13B depict another embodiment of a flexible 
wick insert 700 that can be bent in multiple directions according to certain aspects of the present disclosure. FIG. 13A is a perspective view of the wick insert 700 that is comprises of a separation plate 710 with, in this embodiment, vent holes 730 formed in the solid portions 712 on either side of the flexible portion 711. This embodiment includes several tabs 720 spaced along the wick insert 700 that serve to hold the wick insert in place within a bellows tube, e.g. the bellows tube 590 of FIG. 12A, in place of the spring 596. In certain embodiments, the tabs 720 are used with a spring, e.g. the spring 596 of FIG. 12A. A portion 13B of the wick insert 700 is enlarged in FIG. 13B. In certain embodiments, the tabs 720 are welded to the separation plate 710. In certain embodiments, the tabs 720 may be coupled to the separation plate using other attachment methods known to those of skill in the art, e.g. mechanically interlocking, brazing, soldering, etc.

[0061] FIG. 13B shows a portion of the 
wick insert 700 where a plurality of slots 714 alternately extend inward from the lateral edges 713 to create a serpentine form in the separation plate 710. The portions of the serpentine form that are aligned parallel to a centerline 740 of the separation plate 710 have a first width 718. The portions of the serpentine form that are perpendicular to the centerline 740 have a second width 716. In certain embodiments, the slots 714 extend past the centerline 740. In certain embodiments, the first and second widths 718, 716 are approximately equal. In certain embodiments, the first width 718 is less than the second width 716. The slots 714 increase the lateral flexibility of the wick insert 700 in a plane that is parallel to the separation plate 710 and passes through both lateral edges 713. In certain embodiments, a flexible portion of a heat pipe that includes the wick insert 700 may be locally bent in any plane that passes through the centerline 740. In certain embodiments, a flexible portion of a heat pipe that includes the wick insert 700 may be sequentially bent along its length in different planes that each pass through the centerline 740.

[0062] In certain embodiments, the portion of the 
wick insert 700 that is located within a condenser portion or evaporator portion, e.g. sections 110, 130 of heat pipe 100 in FIG. 3, may have slots 714 such that the condenser portion or evaporator portion can be bent or formed into a particular shape after assembly. The degree of flexibility and the minimum radius of curvature that can be achieved while bending either the rigid condenser or evaporator portions or the flexible portion of a heat pipe may be a function of one or more of the spacing and the length of the slots. 

Bill Clinton then American President was on my commencement on May 10, 1996 saying that we were privileged for receiving the highest education that the US can offer its citizens. He said we would be developing new technologies never excepted before. Pennsylvania is the Keystone State for virtue and liberty. William Penn and Benjamin Franklin would get disappointed on their role in the American Revolution as afterwards my graduation this American President was doing oral sex with Monica Lewinsky intern in the White House office. Penn State president Graham Spanier and Joe Paterno coach were covering up a wave of pedophile abuse that lasted a decade letting Jerry Sandusky abuse disadvantaged boys just where I got my PhD. Now Penn State is joining the Wicking Mob conspiring and colluding with USPTO and Law firms on patenting affairs letting reinvention of Intellectual Property with flaws, disrespecting the Law, Science, and knowledge from your old textbooks. I am a PennStater and my ‘scientific breakthrough’ (US pat 6,766,817) is being violated by flawed patents from lay and dishonest people. Just for curiosity my PhD thesis in Soil Science is rotting at the fourth floor library of ASI bldg. Lay people behind wick/wicking neither understand Hydrology nor the functioning of oil lamps. The science is called Hydrology and the phenomenon is called Unsaturated Hydraulic Flow. The ignorance is so appalling that there is a wicking culture derailing from libraries and common knowledge nurturing flaws like wicking drainage pretending that oil lamps have wicks in the bottom for drainage. As a farm boy raised in a coffee plantation I have no doubt that these wicking people have never ever seeing an oil lamp in their entire life displaying the flame in the top continuously sucking fuel upward from a deposit underneath by a porous interface called wick that draws a fluid by Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity (V/A/T=mm3/mm2/s). Oh! Dear!

The scientific and technological gap, as well as distortion and manipulation of science and institutions, is so huge that there is room for a new science to start fresh new expanding boundaries of knowledge and purging society from pretention, misguidance and dishonesty. For sure there is no other option besides a commitment to honesty always pursuing a balance with Mother Nature - HYDROTECHNOLOGY - A New Science.


Penn State, 1, 23, . ., 25


CareFusion Corporation - Assaulting a ‘Scientific Breakthrough’  US Pat9,067,036 June 30, 2015, US Pat9,205,220 December 8, 2015 – reinvention with serious scientific flaws by lay people colluding with USPTO


Why is Harvard University cheating Hydrology and colluding with USPTO conspiracy?

The same invention was filed and issued twice by the same Patent Examiner:

9,121,306 - Slippery surfaces with high pressure stability, optical transparency, and self-healing characteristics:
Primary Examiner: Ewald; Maria Veronica - Assistant Examiner: Auer; Laura
9,121,307 - Slippery surfaces with high pressure stability, optical transparency, and self-healing characteristics:
Primary Examiner: Ewald; Maria Veronica - Assistant Examiner: Johnson; Nancy
9,353,646 - Slippery surfaces with high pressure stability, optical transparency, and self-healing characteristics:
Primary Examiner: Ewald; Maria Veronica - Assistant Examiner: Auer; Laura

Does it mean that the same thing can be invented thrice by the same inventor? 
Did the inventor cite herself in the other patent as reference about the present status in the art?
Did the Examiner find that a similar invention was also filed and approved by herself?

What would happen if the same reinvention had different inventors and/or different dates?

Is it possible to reinvent the same thing varying inventors and/or dates?

Is it a new Theory of Knowledge that we can reach invention^n on many folding dimensions of creation?

I am a scientist, but did I miss anything during my PhD regarding Philosophy of Science?

‘It was double charged, double paid, and who knows, double invented . . . . or probably double cheated!’

Why is Stanford University cheating Hydrology?

Power vs. Knowledge

Henry Darcy in 1856 addressing fluid flow on porosity proposed the Darcy’s Law. Hydraulic Conductivity gages flow through a cross sectional area by time (volume/area/time) as ‘the velocity of the flow is proportional to the hydraulic gradient’. Afterwards in 1907 Edgard Buckingham suggested a change in the equation to address Unsaturated Hydraulic Flow, as the negative pressure upward against gravity (Soil Physics, Jury et al., 1991, John Wiley). It has been observed that many inventors and scientists employing the terminology ‘wick/wicking’ neither understand the functioning of oil lamps nor Hydrogeology in their libraries, concerning the functioning of Hydraulic Zones. They come up with scientific flaws as wicks only have negative hydraulic flow (unsaturated). Wick is a porous flexible structure resistant to fire that moves fuel toward a flame (Unsaturated Hydraulic Flow) in order to comply with its Etymology it must also resist to high temperatures of flames. It becomes a very basic Etymological flaw to call something as a wick that fails as wick on oil lamps. Then, it is impossible to contrive a wick that cannot perform as a wick. Even more, wicks could never be used as a draining porosity under saturated conditions which is not that easily handled by lay people missing deep comprehension on Hydraulic Zones interplay. After all, wicks never worked in the bottom of oil lamps and it was initially meant to constantly supply fluid under demand to a flame with a very clear hydraulic functioning.

It is a blatant mistake by any faculty handling ‘microfluidic devices’ ignoring the science of fluids – Hydrology and the Law.

Comprehension of American Academic Values

On a pursue of a ‘scientific breakthrough’ I bumped to a huge technical and scientific gap lasting more than a century also associated to an ongoing sort of conspiracy in the patenting system regarding intellectual property affairs as a blatant reinvention scheme is taking place sometimes with flawed patents. USPTO deliberately assigs lay Examiners to judge issues they are not know in the art in combination with outrageous multiple applications of the same invention as it were possible to invent the same thing over and over. The distortion is so evident that in the cover up USPTO does not disclose the technical background of Patent Examiners to assure that they are judging issues within their skill boundaries. Patent Examiners are judging issues and hiding their technical expertise. On their intellectual acumen scientists are engaged with disclosing Nature principles making them also very sensitive to perceive coherence on human affairs since we are part of Nature as well. Scientists learn about Theory of Knowledge and Metaphysics of existence just to know what can be known.

Understanding the bias – The size of the Hydrological Gap

Wick/wicking is not a word found on my Hydrology textbooks but it is in the patent classification system at USPTO guiding lay inventors and lay Patent Examiners pretending they are known in the art.

In 1856 Henry Darcy proposed an equation Law to address fluids moving on porosity for Hydraulic Conductivity. Afterwards in 1907 Edward Buckingham suggested a change to address negative pressure flow for Unsaturated Hydraulic Flow (wick/wicking).

Today July 9, 2015 searching at USPTO:

Thermal/Heat Conductivity is mentioned in                                                               104,147 issued patents
Electrical/Electric Conductivity is mentioned in                                                          80,000 issued patents
Hydraulic Conductivity mentioned in only                                                                          767 issued patents
Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity (wicking for lay people) is mentioned in only                 29 issued patents 
Wick/wicking (Unsaturated Flow if not flawed) is mentioned in                                    34,519 issued patents

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The Conspiracy

Abraham Duncan Stroock
Dept: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Title: Associate Professor

Education

Ph.D., Harvard University, Chemical Physic (2002)
M.S., University Paris VI and XI,Solid State Physics (1997)
B.A. Cornell UniversityPhysics (1995)


De: Abraham Duncan Stroock [mailto:abe.stroock@cornell.edu]
Enviada em: terça-feira, 22 de abril de 2014 22:20
Para: Elson Silva, PhD
Assunto: RE: [06856] Protecting Hydrology Science from REINVENTION by corrupt LAY PEOPLE colluding with USPTO - US Pat 8,701,469

Dear Dr. Silva,
‘...  If you have a point to make about my treatment of hydrological concepts, I ask that you take the time to explain your specific points of disagreement.  I note that my work is better represented in my publications (available at http://www.stroockgroup.org/home/publications​) than in patentsas the lawyers have been translated the latter into legalese that I do not understand.

Best regards,

Abe
___________________________________________________________
De: Elson Silva, PhD [mailto:el_silva@uol.com.br]
Enviada em: terça-feira, 22 de abril de 2014 23:40
Para: 'Abraham Duncan Stroock'
Cc: cko3@cornell.edu; TDO1@cornell.edu; MGS22@cornell.edu; SBW11@cornell.edu; el_silva@uol.com.br
Assunto: RES: [06856] Protecting Hydrology Science from REINVENTION by corrupt LAY PEOPLE colluding with USPTO - US Pat 8,701,469
Prioridade: Alta

Abe,

You are so naive.

‘…Are you sure you got your PhD at Harvard? ‘

Lawyers learn nothing about Hydrology in Law School.

As far as I know no Law School provides Hydrology teaching . . . No Lawyer could discuss Hydrology having no expertise in the subject!

This is funny!
You do not give your scientific papers to Lawyers, so why are your patents different?
(By the way, was it a Lawyer who wrote your PhD thesis?)
Also, Lawyers are illiterate on the functioning of science, besides most scientists have no idea about Epistemology, Metaphysics, Logics, and History of Science (Philosophy of Science).


USPTO is a sham system allowing reinvention sometimes by flawed lazy patents from wealthy parties letting Lawyers step over boundaries beyond their background in Law Schools….’

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