{"id":304,"date":"2013-08-21T18:09:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T18:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innovscience.com\/wordpress\/?p=304"},"modified":"2013-08-21T18:09:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T18:09:22","slug":"university-of-akronprofessor-joseph-p-kennedy-expose-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innovscience.com\/wordpress\/uncategorized\/university-of-akronprofessor-joseph-p-kennedy-expose-part-5\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Akron\/Professor Joseph P. Kennedy Expose, Part 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shortly after delivering my formal talk, scientists from Firestone who had been in attendance approached \u201cDr. Kennedy\u201d and informed him that the basic chemistry I was working on had recently been patented by Kaneka (see JP 11209702, JP 11209701, WO 19990225, and so on).\u00a0 Immediately \u201cKennedy\u201d turned on me stating \u201cIt is your fault, it was your responsibility.\u201d\u00a0 At that time I was surprised by the dramatic change in \u201cKennedy\u2019s\u201d demeanor.\u00a0 For many months I received nothing but praise and was told to focus on conducting actual research work.\u00a0 At that time I had continued to do generalized (keyword) searches on SciFinder Scholar\u00ae<\/sup>; however, none of them produced any hits.\u00a0 Likewise, \u201cKennedy\u201d had conducted numerous searches with the assistance of the head science librarian at the time, Ann Bolek, and still nothing relating to the project had been uncovered.\u00a0 This unusual twist of fate was the first indication to me that \u201cKennedy\u201d was not a man of his word as he had reneged on his promise to \u201cprotect my soft underbelly.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response to the finding that much of the chemistry had more or less be patented, focus was shifted to increasing the silica content of the star core through the use of alkoxy silanes (and even titanium alkoxides for hybrid structures) but the primary thrust of my work was temporarily shifted by \u201cKennedy.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cKennedy\u201d informed me that Firestone was going to pay his research group money (according to him, part of which would fund me) and in return I was to teach one of their scientists (Terry Hogan) how to conduct living polymerization of IB.\u00a0 Starting several days following the visit by Firestone scientists I began to generate new project ideas (see below) that would be related to the work I had been conducting so that I could tie the two together and finish the requirements necessary for my Ph.D. without losing much if any time.\u00a0 From this point forward Dr. \u201cKennedy\u201d offered no useful ideas in regards to work I was involved in.\u00a0 It was in June of 2000 when I officially began a series of interactions with Dr. Hogan at U. Akron and taught him the basic aspects of living polymerization of IB while at the time I continued to work on the PIB silsesquioxane star project.\u00a0 Dr. Hogan then was able to reduce to practice an invention that he had made involving copolymerization of styrenic monomers bearing reactive siloxy groups with IB to make a moisture curable form of PIB (see US 6838539).\u00a0 Hogan\u2019s invention was patented and Dr. \u201cKennedy\u201d somehow got his name listed as a coinventor, despite the fact that Hogan told me personally that \u201cKennedy\u201d made no inventive contributions whatsoever.\u00a0 Interestingly, no money through Firestone ever came my way despite Hogan informing me that Firestone had paid \u201cKennedy\u201d approximately $2,000.\u00a0 At this point I was beginning to slowly realize what Dr. \u201cKennedy\u201d was really about when it came to polymer science.<\/p>\n

Despite these revelations I continued to work in the area of PIB-silsesquioxanes and transitioned into some of the chemistry I had proposed to \u201cKennedy\u201d concerning the use of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS).\u00a0 Unbeknownst to me several more twists of fate were about to transpire\u2026<\/p>\n

Lewis Ideas 1<\/a> Lewis Ideas 2<\/a> Lewis Ideas 3<\/a> Lewis Ideas 4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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