Rejection leaves bubble-fusion patent high and dry.
The US patent office has been drawn into the debate over whether bubble fusion has been achieved. In a crushing rejection of a patent application on the phenomenon, patent examiner Ricardo Palabrica concludes that despite the claims for bubble fusion presented in Science1 in 2002, he doesn’t believe a word of them. “There is no reputable evidence of record to support any allegations or claims that the invention is capable of operating as indicated,” he writes.