BACKGROUND
On 24 August 2006, the PR “Fraud in US Patent Office Rejection of patent application in bubble fusion goes to Supreme Court” described the alleged fraud by the USPTO in the rejection of 2 patent applications related to the light emission from bubbles in water under ultrasound - more commonly known as SL or sonoluminescence - the conversion of sound into light. See:
http://www.free-
The USPTO grounds for rejection were that prior art over the past half century claimed SL was caused by the heating of air in the bubbles to temperatures from 15,000 to 10 million degrees. Indeed, the USPTO issued many patents in sonochemistry and bubble fusion on the claimed utility of high temperatures in collapsing bubbles.
However, SL can be produced at ambient temperature by a process called cavity QED induced EM radiation. Patents based on SL being produced at ambient temperature were summarily rejected by the USPTO using fraudulent arguments based on the false prior art of high temperatures.
Redress for USPTO damages in a False Claims Act (FCA) action was dismissed by the Alexandria district court, and affirmed on 24 May 2006 by the Fourth Circuit. The Petition for writ of Certiorari to the Fourth Circuit was filed in the US Supreme Court on 15 August 2006.
CHANGE OF USPTO REPRESENTATION
On 22 August 2006, the Petition for writ of Certiorari was docketed as No. 06-6006 in the Supreme Court. See Supreme Court Docket
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/
Of interest is that USPTO representation was changed to Paul D. Clement, US Solicitor General.The revised Petition for the new USPTO representation is given in:
http://www.geocities.com/
Nominated in 2005 by President George W. Bush, Mr. Clement has argued numerous cases before the Supreme Court and many of the key cases in the lower courts involving challenges to the President’s conduct of the war on terrorism. See:
http://www.usdoj.gov/
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION
The appearance of Mr. Clement for the USPTO with his background in supporting the President’s war on terror may suggest the USPTO rejected petitioner’s patent applications on the grounds that the process of cavity QED induced EM radiation producing SL light at ambient temperature is a danger to US national security.
But this is nonsense because the US government certainly would not have heavily funded the unclassified SL research in the public domain over the past decade, as it did. The only conclusion one can reach is that the US government itself never considered SL research as a threat to US national security, and by definition therefore, SL never was and never will pose a danger to US national security.
Moreover,QED induced EM radiation explains heretofore unexplained phenomena where light and electrons are obsrved at ambient temperature, none of which pose a danger to US national security. See:
http://www.geocities.com/
Besides protecting the SL and US government scientists, the USPTO's motive was to protect its own reputation by issuing patents in sonochemistry and bubble fusion on the false prior art that high temperatures occur in the collapse of bubble under ultrasound. Once rejected, the SL and US government scientists or others are free to claim the process of cavity QED induced EM radiation is their own discovery.
The Supreme Court states it will respond to the writ by 21 September 2006. Perhaps, the Supreme Court will do the right thing and instruct the Department of Justice to investigate the SL and US government scientists who for over a decade perpetrated perhaps the greatest hoax in the history of science on the US taxpayer - that bubbles collapse at high temperature when in fact they collapse at ambient temperature.
