Once I left U. Akron it was as if a great weight had been lifted from my shoulders.\u00a0 Although my ordeal does not compare in magnitude to his, I kept thinking of the immortal Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s words, \u201cFree at last, free at last.\u00a0 Thank God almighty we are free at last!\u201d\u00a0 But in reality I wasn\u2019t fully insulated from the influence of individuals at U. Akron.\u00a0 Indeed, I had struck out on my own and started a private company (Stewart\u2019s Technologies, LLC) where I was engaged in research for hire services as well as producing small quantities of perfluoroarylated Lewis acids (PFLAs) for sale.*\u00a0 Despite numerous difficulties I can say without hesitation that even the worst of times on my own were better than the best of times at U. Akron.<\/p>\n
Around this time U. Akron sent documentation concerning the patents on which I was listed as a coinventor whereby I\u2019d essentially assign over my interest in the patents to them (see below).\u00a0 I only signed such documents with the caveat that I contested \u201cKennedy\u2019s\u201d inclusion as a coinventor on US 7,202,317 (see enclosure #3 in my letters to Ken Preston and George Moxon, both posted below).\u00a0 Eventually I had raised this concern (again) directly with the director of technology transfer at U. Akron (Mr. Preston) as well as with the attorney (Mr. Moxon) of the law firm (Rotezel and Andress) handling the patent filings (see below).\u00a0 Despite indicating that I was the sole inventor to U.S. 7,202,317 neither of them followed up with me on the matter, further perpetrating the fraud of \u201cDr. Kennedy\u201d.\u00a0 At that time Dr. Collins was still in the employment of U. Akron and had not yet admitted to the fact that indeed I not only conceived the invention but that I was responsible for its full development (please see the last document posted in blog # 16 of this blog series for his admittance of these facts).\u00a0 I can only assume that Collins was in no position to challenge \u201cKennedy\u201d or anyone else at U. Akron for that matter.\u00a0 In fact, on reviewing the invention disclosure form that U. Akron forced me to sign (see below) in April 4, 2003 (this was for the first patent covering the polymerization system devised by Dr. Collins and Dr. Piers) it should be noticed that \u201cDr. Kennedy\u201d was already listed as a coinventor despite the fact that this document actually predates my actual invention contained in US 7,202,317!<\/strong>\u00a0 Further casting serious suspicion on his claim to inventorship is the fact that his claim to inventorship is solely verbal.<\/em>\u00a0 Regardless, as shown in the previous blog posting, every single document regarding this invention clearly shows it is mine as does the fact that I\u2019m the only person to invent two additional polymerization systems that effect cationic polymerization of IB in aqueous media.<\/span><\/p>\n Declaration of power to U.Akron for Inventions<\/a><\/p>\n Letter to Ken Preston<\/a><\/p>\n Letter to Roetzel and Andress Moxon<\/a><\/p>\n Invention Disclosure Form<\/a><\/p>\n In an attempt to further disclose another discovery that I had made previously at U. Akron I began writing a journal article on the decomposition of carbocations paired with PFLAs by sterically hindered pyridines (SHPs).\u00a0 During my stint at U. Akron I discovered that 2,6-di-t<\/em>-butyl-4-methylpyridine readily consumed cumyl carbocation when the latter was paired with a PFLA derived anion and this finding was unique in that the consensus was such SHPs were too bulky to react with any electrophile other than H+<\/sup> .\u00a0 The only problem is that my discovery laid buried in my dissertation and not in a journal.\u00a0 Most of this article is still on my website to this day; however, it was properly rejected by Dr. Collins due to lack of more thorough experimental investigations** (which I wasn\u2019t about to return to U. Akron to conduct).\u00a0 Regardless, submission of this draft spurred additional work in the Collins\u2019 lab and I donated some of the PFLAs used in this research.***\u00a0 This proved to be the final turning point for me in dealings with U. Akron as \u201cDr. Kennedy\u201d was again somehow able to worm his way into a journal article that focused on my discovery.****\u00a0 Unfortunately, I was in no position to prevent this from happening as I was not the lead author since the follow-up research had been conducted by a postdoc of Collins.\u00a0 When this occurred I severed my ties with Collins and soon afterwards, Collins admitted that I was the sole inventor to US 7,202,317 (see last document on the previous blog posting) just prior to departing from U. Akron.<\/p>\n Following this formal severing of ties with Collins I\u2019ve continued to be active in the field of cationic polymerization, now having invented two additional methods for aqueous polymerization of isobutene in addition to numerous other novel discoveries.\u00a0 Still, during my studies of the patent and scientific literature I\u2019ve stumbled across a number of interesting findings regarding \u201cDr. Kennedy\u2019s\u201d past inventorship experiences which further serve to collaborate previous blog postings concerning this individual.\u00a0 These will be detailed in a future blog posting in this series\u2026<\/p>\n * Sadly enough the only individuals to harass me in regards to PFLA manufacture were people from U. Akron and Northwestern University.\u00a0 In the former instance Mr. Kenneth Preston of U. Akron attempted to coerce me into licensing a patent where I was listed as a coinventor.\u00a0 The other instance involved an attorney for Northwestern University whom indicated was requested by no other than Tobin Marks to inform me that I had to stop selling PFLA compounds.\u00a0 In both instances I politely declined their requests since the technology I was using was public domain.\u00a0 The reader can only cast judgment as to the lack of integrity of these individuals and their respective institutions.<\/p>\n ** In this article I attempted to forward a modification of the so called \u201ccomplex counteranion theory\u201d that supposedly originated from \u201cDr. J.P. Kennedy\u201d.\u00a0 As I will be detailing in a subsequent blog posting, a large number of inventions ascribed to this individual are in actuality \u201cprior art\u201d works of others (he even admits this in several publications) and it would appear that the same can be said for a number of concepts that this individual is credited for having developed.\u00a0 Regardless, I have since devised my own theory that satisfactorily explains the MW-T profile behavior for cationic polymerizations.<\/p>\n *** As far as I can tell my donation of materials was never properly referenced in any of the three subsequent papers that were published by the Collins\u2019 group following my departure from U. Akron.<\/p>\n **** This is the only journal article based on a discovery of mine where \u201cDr. Kennedy\u201d was able to place his name.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Once I left U. Akron it was as if a great weight had been lifted from my shoulders.\u00a0 Although my ordeal does not compare in magnitude to his, I kept thinking of the immortal Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s words, … Continue reading