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To: donpat who wrote (14408)	11/23/2011 7:56:30 PM
From: scion	Respond to of 53574

Official: U.S. Needs Europe's Help on Patent Protection NOVEMBER 22, 2011, 11:28 A.M. ET By FRANCES ROBINSON online.wsj.com BRUSSELS—U.S. companies are encountering "serious difficulties" when trying to enforce their patents in China, the White House's intellectual-property czar said Tuesday, calling for the U.S. and the European Union to work together to combat the issue. "It's a complicated problem, not just because of our overall economic relationship with China, but because the scope of the concerns we have with China are so broad," Victoria Espinel said in an interview. "From our perspective in the U.S., it is enormously helpful to be cooperating in Europe in terms of how we approach those issues with China." Addressing this problem would also set a precedent for future dealings on patents with India, she added. Ms. Espinel said the implementation of the America Invents Act, the first comprehensive overhaul of U.S. patent law since the 1950s, will go some way toward resolving disputes over patents. The act will fundamentally change the way in which inventors and companies receive patents. She said the changes, which President Barack Obama signed into law in September, will ensure that patents are of a higher quality. "Clearly the patent system in the U.S. has become one that is litigious, that is complicated," she said at the permanent representation of the German state of Bavaria to the EU. "As an administration one of the things we're looking at is to decrease the need for the amount of litigation that's going on as it's not efficient for any of these companies to be engaged in it," she said when asked about legal battles in several countries world-wide between technology giants such as Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. Ms. Espinel added that a voluntary project that was set up earlier this year to tackle piracy and trademark counterfeiting around online payments will likely be reviewed early next year. Mastercard Inc., Visa Inc., American Express Co., Paypal and Discover are all involved in the project. "We are going to do a review of the credit-cards project at the end of this year, or probably realistically at the beginning of next year to see how it is going," Ms. Espinel said. "Our informal understanding is that is already having an impact, but it's quite hard to understand what that impact is." online.wsj.com

To: donpat who wrote (14408)	11/24/2011 4:51:21 PM
From: donpat	Respond to of 53574

Premelt system: 23.WO WO/2005/087897 - PROCESS AND PLANT FOR CONVERSION OF WASTE MATERIAL TO LIQUID FUEL 22.09.2005 C10G 1/00 PCT/AU2005/000344 BAKER, Garry BAKER, Garry A process and plant for the thermocatalytic conversion of waste materials into reusable fuels and a fuel produced by the process, involving the steps of delivering melted waste material (11) to one or more pyrolysis chambers (26) via heated and valved manifolds (22) and effecting pyrolysis of the waste material into a gascous state in an oxygen purged and pressure controlled environnent. Pyrolytic gases are, then transferred to a catalytic converter (29) where the molecular structure of the gaseous material is altered in structure and form, with gases then transferred to one or more condensers (30a) to distil and cool gases in to their respective fractions. After post pyrolysis treatment, fuel fractions thon form a useable fuel. Includes the melting of waste (plastic) material (11) before delivery into any of the pyrolysis chambers (26), making the movement of material into the catalytic tower (29) a semi-continuous operation, directing melted waste material into one or more, but preferably four, pyrolysis ehambers (26a, b, c, d), making each chamber capable of independent operation, optionally mechanically removing waste char fram the pyrolysis chamber (107) by use of an internat auger (112) or other suitable means. is.gd