Stephen Weinstein:  

Anyone who took chemistry during "period zero" in the 1989 to 1990 academic year is urgently needed for a patent dispute. In a truly incredible turn of events, someone else has applied for a patent on an idea that I remember mentioning in high school chemistry class almost twenty years ago. In order to show that I thought of the invention before the patent applicant, and am therefore entitled to be listed as the first inventor, I am now trying to find either a witness or documentation. The conversation was during the 1989 to 1990 school year. This occured in chemistry class, in the section that had its labs during period 0 and consisted of sophmores, even though the other sections consisted of juniors. Mr. Orso was talking about using particle accelerators to bombard atoms with the nuclei of other atoms. One of the students suggested something and he responded that the suggestion would not make economic sense becaus...Expand for more