I understand that patents do not always tell the whole story either:
many, many years ago I worked in a pharmaceutical laboratory where we
were trying to come up with a product that circumvented a German patent,
but we could not even get the process described in the patent to work --
they may have omitted mention of a catalyst.

-=-
Alan


On 11/08/03 11:32 am Sverre Holm put fingers to keyboard and launched
the following message into cyberspace:

The antenna was first patented in Norway this summer, and I have just read
that patent. I think the innovative aspect of it is the ferrite and its
properties which makes it feasible for a transmitter at VHF/UHF at
reasonable power levels and
with a size of only a few cms.

Of course, the patent says very little about the ferrite - I guess that's
how a good patent is
supposed to be written.