Re: About wireless energy transfer

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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Soljacic has stated in interviews that Tesla's work is what got him 
started on this line of research ... Soljacic is Serbian and has, I 
guess, a nationalistic interest in continuing Tesla's work.  I 
suspect that any references of old research in a submitted research 
paper (based on my own experience) would have to be very brief ... 
just a citation ... as most journals have page limits, or at least 
the editors try to limit the copy to what work was done by the researcher"

   I think the editors'/reviewers' treatment of old work might be 
different if it anticipated all of the principles which the authors 
of the new paper advanced as their own novel discoveries.  I'm sure 
that patent examiners would decide in this particular case that there 
was NO new art.  Doubt if those guys will ever try to patent their ideas.

Ed