In addition to my last post:
I noticed that the inventor said he HAD a NATIONAL PATENT on the device and then goes on to talk about getting an INTERNATIONAL PATENT.
Well, there is no such thing as a NATIONAL PATENT. We have U.S. Patents only. The INTERNATIONAL PATENT is a real mystery to me.
Now, the “proof in the pudding” is the fact that if he already has the NATIONAL PATENT (or whatever the heck he will call it next) it would be a valid U.S. patent on file for everyone to see. Simply to to the patent and trademark web page and search under his name and you will find it. If you cant.....HE IS A SCAM ARTIST AND LIAR.
Oh come on! "Surely" you understand that by "National Patent" he is referring to the granting of his Italian Patent Application (or his pending U.S. Application), i.e. a patent issued by and recognized in a single nation.
By International Patent he is most likely referring to a "Eurozone-wide" patent, which is still pending.
He's not talking about a US patent, but about a problem with the US Patent Office which has a strict prohibition on patents for perpetual motion devices (and others of that kind that promise more energy out than goes in the hopper. They'd not patent an atom bomb if someone came in with an application.)
He has a quite reasonable fear that entities in the United States will simply copy his device, manufacture it and sell it without paying him royalties, and all because the US isn't going to let him patent it here.
He applied for patent protection in Italy, where he is based, not the US. This is what he means by “national patent.”