This post was first published on 25th August, 2014.
Owing to the ever increasing gas prices, fuel efficiency offered by vehicles has become a strong deciding factor among buyers. Diesel bikes are a great benefit for people obsessed with fuel efficiency but unfortunately diesel bikes are currently not offered by any OEMs for the masses. Royal Enfield’s Taurus was the only diesel motorcycle that was in mass production until some time ago. The vibration produced by diesel engines in a motorcycle, jolts the…
First Publication Date: 12th January 2011
This is in furtherance to the post, titled “Driving on Hydrogen”, on using Hydrogen as a fuel in automobiles. Recently I happened to come across a video on YouTube titled “Salt water into Fuel”, which they have mentioned as an accidental invention. I was quite excited to see this and went in search of more details of this invention. I found out that the story goes like this. John Kanzius of Sanibel, Florida was…
Rejections under this clause are based on the fact that claims do not fall within one of the four statutory categories of acceptable subject matters: process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter.
One of the ways to overcome this type of rejection is by claiming an invention by properly reciting the subject matter. In the automobile industry, the claims must satisfy process, machine, and manufacture categories.
Example: A method for enabling anti-lock braking in a vehicle…