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Old 10th Mar 2013, 17:43
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Lyman
 
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Prior to filing document of disclosure for a patent in the early seventies, I would not have guessed that a Patent hasn't anything whatever to do with the utility of the patented process/device.

There is no requirement anywhere in the successful Patent process to demonstrate that the device actually works, or has any use whatever....

It provides "protection" from infringement, only. It is not a Warranty, nor is it a "Guarantee". Obviously, in the case of the Dreamliner.

Boeing would not be the first client to be over-impressed with a REGUSPATOFF file number....

But the only germane discussion at this point is how can the battery be made reliable, let alone safe?

VOLTAGE and TEMPERATURE numerics are useless against thermal runaway. So far as keeping this "Battery" operating in any case. They might be useful in stopping a conflagration, but for Gods sake, why is anything that can ignite spontaneously anywhere near an AIRCRAFT?

Surely Boeing knew that?

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