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Originally Posted by gregory
I first started wet flow testing in 1993 with a bench I built and designed my self, just like the one I designed & built for Darin Morgan at Reher Morrison.
Mondello did'nt reinvent wet flow testing. While attending the AETC conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado I, Lloyd Creek mention to Joe that I had an idea for a wet flow bench.
We decided to form a Corporation called Mondello/ Creek Flow Management, Inc.
From that I designed and engineered the WFB-2000, WFB-1500, and Dart's WFB-2800.
Just wanted to set things straight, seems like the real story gets buried these days
Lloyd Creek
Creek Flow Management
Hmmmm..boy that patent process takes a long time..thats a pity you cant talk about the droplet size.
Perhaps holley should buy one of your benches to help design their holleys with smaller droplet exit sizes..it sure would improve air saturation.
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If something was posted about these wet flow patents then that information would become public knowledge. Even something spoken to a friend or family member without a disclosure document signed becomes public and some patents have been invalidated because during cross-examination, the friend or family member admits to there knowledge of something without a disclosure document signed.
You can file a letter of intent and just start manufacturing, selling and
posting information about a product but you then have one year to file the provisional patent. Sometimes this is better, to explore the marketability of a product before you spend, in my case, $34,000.00 on the patent and $2,000.00 annual maintenance fees. You can enjoy one year of sales (with the option to patent), saturate the market, bring in revenue to pay for the patent, or never get the patent (if sales are slow) or find an investor to buy it and pay for the patent. Make sure your patent covers everything and is worded such that
all your claims cannot be challenged by a simular product other wise you will have to file a continuation in part to modify and expand on this wording so now your patent will cost double. Its the bait and switch game of the patent attorneys but you should verify the accuracy of what I'm saying all-though This is ,I believe, generally correct.