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  • From: David <david@h4c.org>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Mycoremediation of petroleum-polluted sites.
  • Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:42:39 -0800


Lawrence,

Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
David wrote:

> Would it be possible to offer more information, if you remember or have it?


Maybe this will be useful...
Wow... A cornucopia of information! Thank you, sir.

Based on the blogspot entry, it sounds as though Stamets is indeed the guy featured/mentioned in the "Bioneers episode" (remediation of diesel impregnated compost materials), albeit that media itself remains unknown.

For what it's worth, the link previously provided to USPTO offers images of Stamets' latest patent on mycoremediation. There are three primary means for protection of intellectual property in the US, which are copyright (which is of no use in protecting technology), patent (strong in the US), and trade secret (which means in essence that you don't tell anybody). Patents and trade secrets are in some ways at opposite poles, since patents become public knowledge after being granted. However, the point of a patent is not to teach other folks how to do something, but rather to describe enough about it so that you can act to prevent others from doing the same thing, or producing a product which uses the same technology. (Patents are "enforced" by the patent holder, not by the government.) As well, patents often describe processes which are not intended for use, simply to include them in the protection, should they prove useful in the future. Finally, even though the patent may disclose enough about the process, design (or what-have-you) so that it can be protected, key information may well be left out, particularly since not all countries have patent laws, and some of those which do have poor records of prosecution for patent violators (e.g. China). Leaving out key information can therefore provide a combination of patenting and trade secret protection.

As such, Stamets patent is not a step-by-step recipe for using this technology, etc., etc., but it does appear to have some interesting information. I got the actual images of the patent, which offers the pictures, as well as the text, and put it all in a PDF. I will send the to the first 10 who ask, or post it to the list if there are all that many interested.

d.

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