Sep 2nd

Patents go to the Movies

By GordonSh
Hi guys.
Today I’m going to talk about some fantastic movie related Inventions.
We all like the movies and most of us like action sci-fi movies with spacecrafts and laser guns and out of this world technology. Back on Earth some guys have boldly gone where no man has gone before.
We’ll start with an appetizer. Who wouldn’t want to invent the Starship “USS Enterprise”? Well, apparently these guys beat all of us to that goal:
WORSLEY ANDREW PETER, TWIST PETER JOHN in their patent application US2003114313 have founded the basic technological principals for the Enterprise’s Warp drive,
And if you would like to “beam” somebody up like our old chap Scotty you’ll probably will have to ask permission from these guy: ST CLAIR JOHN Q which in his patent application US2006071122 has invented a “Full body teleportation system”. Good for him.
This guy (ST CLAIR JOHN Q) has applied several other applications that are relevant to our discussion: US2006145019 named “Triangular spacecraft” (somebody have seen too many UFO movies), US2006014125 named “Walking through walls training system“ and US2006072226 “Remote viewing amplifier” which connect the human spiritual eye to the tetrahedral geometry of subspace. This guy walks on a different planet than the rest of us.
Off course, there are some other sci-fi space ships like for instance: “Battlestar Galactica” which looks very much like this WO0120164 application by AKIBA SHEIICHI “SPACE BATTLESHIP AIRCRAFT CARRIER”.
And let us not forget Star Wars. There is this patent application CA2572538 by EDISON PETER “TYPES OF THE EDISON PERPETUAL MOTORS ABOARD A STAR SHIP MAKING STAR WARS” although I think he is reaching to high, don’t you?
 
The next aspect of sci-fi movies we’ll examine is of course Phasers. Phasers have long been an integral part of sci-fi movies and books. For example, a guy from Germany named MERLAKU KASTRIOT who in his patent DE202006010661 “Beam weapon…” has invented, well, a laser gun.
Mind reading is another theme that runs deep in sci-fi’s blood. A good example is in the movie “signs” with Mel Gibson, where the kids cover their head with aluminum foil in order to deflect mind reading. Well, YOSHINOUCHI YUTAKA was deeply concern with his mind been copied by the “vicious Gray Orion” aliens (his words, not mine) that is invented a helmet to protect himself against them (and he is actually allowed to walk free) in his application JP2008038574.

Finally, I want to introduce you to a patent application JP2007124899 concerning the death of our sun. This guy, KAJISA ISAO has invented a DEVICE FOR INSTANTLY TELEPORTING EARTH TO STELLAR SYSTEM NEAR EARTH WHILE UTILIZING TELEPORTATION WHEN SUN BURNS OUT. As you all know a patent is valid for 20 years or so while our sun is supposed to burn out its fuel supply  in as little as 5 billion years (or 2 billion if the collision with the Andromeda galaxy will throw us into a black hole or something). To this guy I only have to say: “have you forgotten your medication?” By the way, there is a book named “The Ring of Charon” by Roger MacBride Allen and published in 1990 that deal with gravitational experimentation and the TELEPORTATION OF EARTH to another solar system. I wonder if that’s where our guy got his inspiration.


This is it ladies and gentleman, until next time goodbye and farewell. I’ll be flying home in my spaceship (or maybe teleport myself) to the planet Melmac.
Apr 27th

Time Machines, Time travel Not theoretically impossible but very unlikely

By GordonSh
Hi guys, I’m back.

Today we are going to talk about Patents whose subject is time traveling.
First of all, From the physics point of view, time travel is not entirely impossible. Einstein’s equations regarding time as the fourth dimension which based on Lorentz transformation do not discriminate time from going forward or backward. In quantum mechanics, the time reversal matrix operator is non unitary which mean that time cannot slow down to a halt and reverse itself. This mean that going back in time in quantum mechanics is impossible. For last, my favorite, it has been mathematically proven that black holes cannot be used to travel back in time an even to go to different place in space (wormholes)!

So, back to our discussion, it amazes me that some people have managed to create (if only in their minds) time machines and methods to travel in time. Like this guy: KAJISA ISAO who filed for a patent in Japan named “COMPLETION TYPE WORMHOLE TIME MACHINE” 
Patent JP2006074999. I guess he didn’t made it for the first time because he filed for this patent called: “COMPLETED SPATIAL WORMHOLE TIME MACHINE 2 “  Patent JP2006121104.
I also think that the guys at CERN using the Large Hadron Collider to create some of the world most energetic particle accidents and by doing so could create a micro black hole (not really) could use this guy’s help viewing their black hole with his invention: SPACE WORMHOLE TIME MACHINE ASSOCIATED WITH DEVICE FOR VIEWING NAKED SINGULARITY (FUTURE) . Patent JP2006050900.
About his time machines, I suppose he didn’t do so well because he needed three more versions to perfect his time machine in this patent: "SPATIAL WORMHOLE TIME MACHINE IN COMPLETE VERSION 5". Patent JP2006288199.
Just as I thought I finished with this guy I found an application he made which shed some positive light on his perception of reality. In his application: “GRAVITY CONTROL TIME MACHINE UTILIZING ACCELERATED MOTION TO WHICH GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY IS APPLIED” Patent JP2005102494, he confesses that “By this, it is possible to solve the problem that the time travel is impossible since the wormhole of the conventional time machine theory can not be created with the level of the contemporary science”. Thank god he realizes that. My question is: why spend all that money and time for a patent he knew he can’t apply until the next scientific breakthrough?   
 
Let’s move to another inventor who is so proud of his time machine, he named it after himself: "YOSHINO" TIME MACHINE SYSTEM. Patent JP2006314185.
He also managed to levitate objects using “gravitons” (a particle which has not yet proved to be exist – it hasn’t been found yet) in his patent: YOSHINO BLACK & WHITE TIME MACHINE SYSTEM AND YOSHINO GRAY LEVITATION OBJECT SYSTEM. Patent JP2007209189.

Finally we got to my favorite invention in this field, filed by an American guy (KWOK MITCHELL) named: “Time Machine Software” Patent US2008281766 .  This guy already have a time machine and he uses it to send Robots to the future (and I think the past too). Hey buddy! “TERMINATOR” and James Cameron were there first.

This leads me to my next topic: “Patents and Hollywood”
Apr 5th

Beating the Laws of physics as we Know them

By GordonSh
Hi guys.

As you probably know, the Intellectual Property world (and especially patents) is slightly off phase with reality. What I mean is that in the patents world there are machines and devices that can break and beat even the fundamental laws of physics and there are systems and methods for doing amazing stuff like time travel and supplying free, unlimited energy.

I’ll start with some examples:

The first patent is from Greece, Patent Application number 20050100579,
title:” FIRST KIND PEPRETUAL MOTION MECHANISM”.
This patent application states that the inventor devised a way to create a perpetual motion mechanism thus producing endless kinetic energy.
“Hey dude, haven’t you heard of the second law of thermodynamic and the law of energy conservation?”
And it goes on. We’ll continue with two Korean patents Numbers 20040004312 and 20040096990 with titles:
“ENDLESS POWER GENERATING SYSTEM USING GRAVITY FORCE”, and “GRAVITY ENGINE USING PERMANENT MAGNET, CAPABLE OF GENERATING ELECTRIC ENERGY ENDLESSLY, AND REDUCING ENERGY COST BY CONVERTING ENERGY FROM GRAVITY INTO MECHANICAL ENERGY OR ELECTRIC ENERGY”  
Respectively.
These guys, I think, knew that they were ignoring the laws of nature but thought they were smarter. “Hey guys, how come you haven’t won the Nobel price already?”
And last but not least, an inventor that thought that he could harness the name of Archimedes for his law braking patent. This patent from Belgium, Number 1014867 and
title:” Theory of perpetual motion is based on Archimedes principle where body submerged in liquid is subject to vertical upwards thrust equal to weight of liquid volume displaced”
In this patent he uses the buoyancy principle found by Archimedes to power his “not so possible” machine.

There are many more (in fact there are whole Classifications in the European Patent Office database) who are trying to defeat the laws of nature but ignoring just one mechanism that can’t work or one (or even more) law of nature that is broken.

So, what can we conclude from this experience?
1. For starters, not all great minds have their feet on the ground (to say the least).
2. The laws of nature can’t be broken and if you think you found a breach in current theories, forget the patent and head strait to Stockholm.
3. If you somehow managed to build a machine which produce endless energy, I want in (I’m serious, call me).

Next time, Time Machines, Not theoretically impossible but very very unlikely.