"My" Lawyer, Salt Lake City Patent Attorney, Brian Kunzler, Meets With Hartvigsen, Dec. 23, 09

"My" Lawyer, Salt Lake City Patent Attorney, Brian Kunzler, Meets With Hartvigsen: "I told him that in turn, I would ask you to refrain from discussing him on-line or contacting him about any right or lack of rights to the design". Dec.23,09

From:

"Brian Kunzler" Dec.23, 09

To:

"davis ron"

Ron,

I met with Joe Hartvigsen today. I explained the law to him regarding copyrights and our position that neither he, Peter, or the widow has an exclusive right to stop you from using the water turbine design. This stems from the fact that copyright law cannot cover a product like the water turbine that is largely functional and does not have a significant aesthetic component.

I asked him to refrain from stating that you have no right to sell the design. I told him that in turn, I would ask you to refrain from discussing him on-line or contacting him about any right or lack of rights to the design. He seemed reasonable, and I think we can lay this to rest and the two of you can go your separate ways.

Brian

Brian C. Kunzler

Kunzler and McKenzie

8 East Broadway, Suite 600

Salt Lake City, Utah 84111

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Libel, Fraud, Extortion--Description of problem to SLC patent attorney Kunzler March 22, 09

Description of problem to SLC patent attorney Kunzler March 22, 09


Watermotor Turbine design ownership dispute in Bolivia
Sunday, March 22, 2009 5:16 PM
From:
"davis ron"
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kunzler@kmiplaw.com
Dear Mr. Kunzler,

I am an "appropriate technology" inventor from California living for
many years in Bolivia. My wife, Diane Bellomy, and I have a private aid project here called Campo Nuevo, a 17 year old volunteer program working in state children's homes called Los Amigos del Hogar, as well as a 30 year old textile art business called Artesania Sorata. (artesaniasorata.com)

On the appropriate technology side our chief project has been to develop a small water powered turbine which can be used to drive machines such as grain mills and woodworking tools directly with water power--a "Watermotor" (watermotor.net).
There was an article about this project in Home Power Magazine (June/July 1999)

I spent considerable time and expense on this project, including building and testing many turbines wheels before finally settling on a "turgo" type turbine design from Sweden being offered to the members of the Yahoo microhydro e-group. There was absolutely no assertion of design ownership made at the time.
For this turbine wheel I designed and patented a unique power control system which allows the turbine power output to be controlled as easily as an electric motor, allowing it to be used to directly drive machines.
(This is shown in annimation on the watermotor.net site)
We conducted the first laboratory testing of this turbine wheel, built a rural demonstration site over the Andes to show it running a variety of machines (see watermotorturbine on Youtube), produced a video, website and set up production.
Then, after all this, an engineer in Salt Lake City named Joseph Hartvigsen began claiming that his partner in Sweden owned the Swedish turbine wheel design, and that I owed him $32 per turbine as "royalty" payments. That began about eight years ago.
It was Hartvigsen himself who had originally suggested we use this turbine, which he called an "orphan" design.

Hartvigsen and his new "partner" in Sweden, Peter Ruyter, began telling a story that the design came from an old widow in Sweden named Ingela Carlsson, whose husband had invented it, and that Ruyter had bought the design from her. Hartvigsen now said it was a "un-registered copyright".

They publicly accused me to my coleagues worldwide on the microhydro e-group, as they do to this day, of cheating her out of royalty payments.

I told them many times that I would be very willing to discuss royalty payments if they could prove there was any such person as the Widow Ingela Carlsson, and proof of sale, and that as an "un-registered copyright" the design was protected for use as an internal machine part in Bolivia.
In fact I had made substantial changes to the original design by producing it in metal (the original was plastic)changing the shape, color, weight, etc.

Their widow Carlsson story was suspect from the beginning. They could not say where she lived, what the inventor, her husband's, name was, or produce any proof of Ruyter's purchase of the design, or the date of purchase.
The Swedish patent office told me that anyone claiming design protection was expected to be able to prove it. They had no registered copyrights or patents at all on this type of turbine.

I wrote to the Swedish police in every department, the government census offices and welfare agancies, and the Swedish microhydro association looking for Ingela Carlson and her husband without results.
I also offered a $1000 reward to five Swedish detective agancies and in eleven newspapers without any results at all.
My conclusion is that the entire widow Ingela Carlson story is a hoax fabricated by Hartvigsen and Ruyter in order to take over a design in public domain by fraud after I had spent years working on developing it.
Neither they, nor anyone else has been able to prove any such person as the widow they tell everyone I am cheating, exists.

Hartvigsen has almost certainly told everyone he knows and works with the story of the widow he is protecting, so it would be very damaging to him for it to be shown to be a complete fabrication.

I also believe he was telling this story to his co-workers at Ceramatec when they were testing a anaerobic setting cellulose fiber re-inforced silicone rubber compound I had invented and, at Hartvigsen's suggestion, submitted to Ceramatec for testing.
Later I learned from Hartvigsen himself that he and the new company owner, Ashok Joshi, had made themselves "co-inventors" of my compound, and had kept my business correspondance to Ceramatec out of the company files.

A central idea behind my Watermotor design was to develop a small turbine which could be locally produced in small workshops all over the "third world". I would never have chosen a copyright or patented turbine wheel design. It seemed as though Hartvigsen and Ruyter deliberately waited until I had done all the work to develop the Watermotor before beginning their taleover campaign against me.
In other words, it was a set-up.

Since then there has been an unrelenting effort to destroy my Watermotor project and my reputation in the microhydro community.
They contact my clients and convince them to cancel their orders.
They sent someone to threaten my co-workers here in Bolivia.
Defamatory messages about me and my product are posted on the microhydro e-group site, to which I am not allowed to reply.

Ruyter has sent me photos of himself with guns, and threats. He has publicly denounced me as a "terrorist".(search google: ron davis turbine)

I have many, many e-mails proving everything I have told you here.
I will send you some examples, if I may. There is a very recent posting to the microhydro e-group repeating his claims.

The Watermotor was my life's work and I simply cannot let these individuals destroy it out of their greed.
Please help us if you can.


P.S. My wife and I may have to return to the U.S. in order for her to be treated at the CDC in Atlanta. My doctor has advised living at a lower altitude for me because of a heart and lung condition. I am 62. (La Paz is at 12,500 ft.)

All the best, and thank you for reading this.

Ron Davis,
Campo Nuevo,
La Paz, Bolivia

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Brigham Young on Mormon Lawyers

The Cursing of Mormon Lawyers

Monday, December 18, 2006

By Nate Oman

Cursing, it would seem, forms something of a theme in Mormon legal history. Not only was it a way of dealing with unsolved crimes, but it also seems to have been used as a way of controlling frivolous litigation. In 1856, Brigham Young delivered a particularlly blistering sermon denouncing lawyers. Speaking of the law courts, he thundered, “It is a cage of unclean birds, a den and kitchen of hell, and I am going to warn you of it.” And warn he did. In particular, he was hard on:

[T]he lustful, wicked, cursed, hellish appetites of professed brethren, in striving to cheat their neighbors, by employing lawyers to deceive or lie for them, which are synonymous terms in the eyes of justice, and by bringing in witnesses to screen the guilty and deceive a jury, whereby they are liable to give a wrong verdict.

And so Brigham cursed the lawyers (and their clients it would seem): “Men who love corruption, contention, and broils, and who seek to make them, I curse you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.” Lest one think that this was a simple case of cussing or rhetoric, Brigham went on, “I curse you, and the fruits of your lands shall be smitten with mildew, your children shall sicken and die, your cattle shall waste away, and I pray God to root you out from the society of the Saints.”