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abstraxt:
Hello Everyone,

An inventor from the country where I reside claims to be able to charge a multitude of devices and power an LCD TV wirelessly up to 3m away from the transmitter without needing any alignment between the transmitter and receiver. The inventor also claims to be able to interface with Qi devices (!!) without any extra circuitry.

I’m livid because she’s started suing a number of people in the country who criticised her device, has been scamming institutions and companies for money, and almost convinced a friend of mine to invest with her. I’ve talked him out of it, analysed the patent on my own, and am skeptical the device works as intended much less work at all.

However it’s been a while since I did any electronics work, and so I’d appreciate extra input and possible help in proving this is a fraud. Here’s the patent for anyone interested and thank you in advance.

Andy Chee:
Unfortunately, a dodgy patent is not enough documentation to prove fraud.

For fraud, you need the documentation for bank transactions as well.

abstraxt:
Agreed. I at least want to make the case that it doesn’t work, since she’s suing people on the basis that the invention does work and they’re “slandering her work.”

tooki:
I am not a lawyer, but at first glance I suspect that patent is unenforceable, and likely should never have been issued, since patents require the invention to be new, non-obvious, and not violate the laws of physics. The USPTO can (and IMHO should have, in this case) ask for a working model.

But yeah, I suspect this patent would be easy to defeat in court, in USA at least. (Though doing so would still cost many thousands of $ in lawyer fees.)

TimFox:
Which jurisdiction issued the patent?
Real inventions are usually submitted for patents in multiple jurisdictions, such as the USPTO (US) and EPO (Europe).

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