(Express mail delivered on October 30, 2006 #EB010104345BR)
General Counsel
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
P.O. Box 1450
Alexandria, Virginia 22313-1450
NOTIFICATION OF MASSIVE IP VIOLATION
USPTO is issuing thousands of patents that violate principles of science regarding common knowledge in Geo and Soil Sciences consequently infringing IP rights at US Pat. 6,766,817, 6,918,404, and 7,066,586, according to the principles of Theory of Science (Epistemology, Metaphysics, Logics, and History of Science).
Etymology requires Epistemology and Metaphysics of Science to comply with a correct expression when describing objects to preserve precise existential boundaries. Ex: All balls are supposed to be spherical as football is a sport intrinsically to play a ball using foot. All balls are required to keep their specific round geometry otherwise it trespasses existential Metaphysics hurting their connotation.
All acquired claims are bound to the precise Etymology of their expression; wick/wicking is bound to the precise functioning of oil lamps regarding its hydrology and functioning temperature. No wick works with flow downward since the flame is on the top. Also, all wicks need to stand to high temperature of a flame of oil lamps.
Wick/wicking invented by the Stone Age Man around 70,000 years ago is a porous device to conduct fuel upward toward a flame of oil lamps, requiring specific Thermodynamics and Hydrodynamic compliances.
Capillary/Capillarity is the fluid conduction inside micro tube structures like capillaries
Etymology requires that all wicks as porous devices to work out on oil lamps abiding to Thermodynamics and Hydrodynamics. Any wick that fails on oil lamps betrays its own conceptions losing existential boundaries.
Hydrology is the common science that has due knowledge to address fluids moving on porosity and such field of science avoid using wicks due to the Thermodynamics connection not important to Hydrological functioning. Hydrology also ignores wicks because of limited functioning of oil lamps.
Hydrogeology and Soil Physics are the correct sciences to handle common knowledge of fluids moving on porosity working for a long time on natural porosities endowing a higher understanding on hydrodynamic conceptions.
This Massive IP Violation is neglecting Hydrological insights to patenting affairs that is very easy of verification:
Heat Conduction is assessed by Heat/Thermal Conductivity and 60,608 issued patents mention it.
Fluid Conduction on porosity is assessed by Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity but only 17 patents mention it even 21,651 issued patents on wick/wicking porosity never gauged spatial dynamics of fluid conduction on such porous devices because experts do not have appropriate hydrological background.
Experts assessing Thermal Conductivity are not aware about Fluid Conductivity on porosity since 1,152 patents show this shortcoming on Heat Pipe/Wick not addressing Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity. It means that inventors gauging Heat/Thermal Conductivity are not gauging Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity depicting an important flaw about conductivity when heat is assessed while fluid is neglected on the same device functioning.
MASSIVE IP VIOLATION
- Allowing wicks that fail on oil lamp functioning.
I believe that any Court of Law will comply with Etymology requirements and make vacant claims that failed to describe the aimed objects. Balls are only valid for spherical objects, while wicks allow only the hydrology of oil lamps combined to high temperature of flames, and capillarity is the fluid movement inside cylindrical structures.
Wicks from oil lamps can be used to conduct fluids on many fluidic applications. But, if there is any change on their structure leading to a failure on oil lamps, Metaphysics of Science signals that the wick connotation becomes void. Wicking hydrology can only work upward toward the flame on top.
Every week around 8% of all issued patents and patent applications is associated to applied hydrology of fluids moving on porosity devices according to a search of these words: wick/wicking/capillary/capillarity/porous/porosity.
My suggestion to the General Counsel is the following:
- Hire around 8% of Patent Examiners (320) with background in Soil Physics or Hydrogeology to handle technically patents that deals with fluid moving on porosity (Unsaturated Flow).
- Notify patent holders that granted patents on wick/wicking hydrology need compliance to their precise Etymology and their patents become vacant in case the claimed wick devices fail on oil lamps upward toward a flame (Hydrodynamics + Thermodynamics). Wicking cannot work downward.
- Notify patent holders that granted patents on ‘capillary pumping’ are invalid because such expression violates common knowledge in Soil Physics/Hydrogeology where this phenomenon is called ‘Unsaturated Hydraulic Flow’ commonly reported on text books for academic teaching.
- Notify patent holders that granted patents on capillarity derivatives need compliance to the Etymology and their patents become vacant in case the devices are not a tube like geometric figure of capillaries. Capillarity is the ‘Unsaturated Hydraulic Flow’ only inside micro capillaries and does not allow it on porosity which requires multidirectional flow restrained by tube geometry.
US Pat. 6,766,817 p.2 line 27
US Pat. 6,766,817 p.2 line 60 – ‘Specialized scientific literature about unsaturated zones also recognizes this shortcoming. For example: "Several differences and complications must be considered. One complication is that concepts of unsaturated flow are not as fully developed as those for saturated flow, nor are they as easily applied." (See Dominico & Schwartz, 1990. Physical and Chemical Hydrogeology. Pg. 88. Wiley). Concepts of unsaturated flow have not been fully developed to date, because the "capillary action" utilized to measure the adhesion-cohesion force of porosity is restrained by capillary tube geometry conceptions. The term "capillary action" has been wrongly utilized in the art as a synonym for unsaturated flow, which results in an insinuation that the tube geometry conception captures this phenomenon when in truth it does not’.
Since measuring fluid conduction on porosity is easier than measuring heat conduction I believe that after this massive IP violation is fixed the number of patents addressing Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity should increase in 20 to 40 years from the present 17 to around 100,000 new issued patents abiding to Theory of Science. This should take place because a spatial quantitative assessment increases reliability and control on hydrodynamics properties of fluid moving on porous systems also restoring advanced scientific Hydrological support to fluidic devices needing an enhanced macro and microporosity and dynamics between hydrological zones.
I trust that USPTO basic policy is to avoid violating principles of science requiring inventors to employ correct Etymology and also preventing duplicity of terminology respecting common knowledge from all interrelated sciences. Coherence on connotation system is the correct way to hone the advancement of technology.
Kind regards,
Campinas, Brazil, October 20, 2006
Elson Silva, Ph. D.
Tubarc Technologies, LLC
Av. Dr. Júlio Soares de Arruda, 838 Parque São Quirino
CEP 13088-300 - Campinas - SP - Brazil
Phone 55 *19 3256-7265
Email: tubarc@gmail.com
‘All live beings are endowed with attributes for survival and procreation, ensuring the next generation's existence.'
In the mainstay of the world, the authority who signed my PhD diploma, in a commencement hosting an AMERICAN PRESIDENT delivering his first speech for reelection, let boys be molested during 15 years in the campus facilities where I got my scientific education. Reaffirming this trend, Bill Clinton doing oral sex with Monica Lewinsky in his office in THE WHITE HOUSE nearly got him impeached, highlighting this degrading culture that MAKING MONEY is more relevant than caring for children, SCIENCE, and ETHICS, mainly on educational grounds. Education was supposed to preach HONESTY. So, the American Scientific Community that grabbed 2/3 of all Nobel Prize Nominations has no urge to clear this ongoing CONSPIRACY colluding with the Government Reinvention Policy by neglecting HYDROLOGY science in the basics more than a century. This is opening a wide gap worth REFRESHING SCIENCE in the PRINCIPLES, and creating a new one - HYDROTECHNOLOGY - to fulfill this lacuna on life existence as BIOCHEMISTRY is feasible because of HYDRODYNAMICS, making H2O the main component of all live beings. Well, I had a chance to verify that outlaws wandering in public areas still preserve a strong bonding and respect to families and children swinging on public trees, showing a higher inherited commitment from MOTHER NATURE’.
- 29 years ago, I got PhD in Soil Science at Penn State University, USA, working with Spatial Dynamics of Hydrology
in the Amazon Basin.
- 27 years ago, I started playing ADVANCED GARDENING, at home on watering flowerpots to ease emotional pressure
from INSTITUTIONAL JOB HARASSMENT.
- 24 years ago, I filed my first American patent believing that the system was genuine and HONESTY was a
common sense to honor a 'scientific breakthrough', mainly in the ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT.
- 21 years ago, my first patent US 6.766,817 was easily issued by USPTO. deploying the technical terminology from
my PhD textbooks uncommon in the Patenting System.
- 10 years ago, I created a new science Hydrotechnology to explore a huge scientific gap ignoring Hydraulic
Conductivity on fluidic devices. defining new Hydrodynamic Conceptions based on Advanced Artificial
Porosity, absent on textbooks.
- In 2025 based on updated Hydrodynamics on porosity I set the HYDROLOGY CRADLE TO 70,000 YEARS AGO
starting a new Era of Hydrology by the principle of life.
- For TWO DECADES the principles of ‘tubarc’ to upgrade capillarity has been confirmed by broad and
persistent patent infringement cracking down a sort of Reinvention Policy by USPTO neglecting Hydrology SCIENCE shamefully. This culture degradation is wealthy, obese, sedentary, addict to drugs, vitamins, anti-depressants, electronics, fastfood, etc., becoming grumpier and dumber on neurogenic effect. By ignoring science, the US was the leader in human tragedies that lost more citizens to Sars-Cov-2 than all wars combined. Only when hospitals got clogged and collective nocturnal trenched burials, convinced that saving lives was more relevant than making money. So, the American President who recommended Hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 is back pardoning criminals who invaded the US Capitol. How about Presidential Orders to force Americans on HEALTHY LIVESTYLES and HONESTY, mainly on EDUCATIONAL AFFAIRS? China is also waging on DICTARTORSHIP to preserve the culture. As Freedom of Expression is a business aiming at PROFIT, since peace and good deeds are too boring for the media developing businesses, while greed, fear, ambition, and tragedies making the world unbearable is the perfect recipe for a WEALTHY PRESS.
____________________________________________________________________________________
Phlogiston and Wicking
____________________________________________________________________________________
From: Moulis, Thomas <Thomas.Moulis@uspto.gov>
Date: Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:40 PM
Subject: RE: Conspiracy and Brainwashing III – USPTO is preaching to their Patent Examiners that they do not need to be known in the art for judging and allowing IP rights when issuing patents!
To: Elson Silva, PhD <tubarc@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:40 PM
Subject: RE: Conspiracy and Brainwashing III – USPTO is preaching to their Patent Examiners that they do not need to be known in the art for judging and allowing IP rights when issuing patents!
To: Elson Silva, PhD <tubarc@gmail.com>
You are a fool---
If you can’t understand legal or technical writing, you have no business blogging about it
“Wicking” is a term of art---fluid will travel in any direction via the fibers—regardless of gravity
-------------------
"Wick/wicking is in the patent classification system but not on HYDROLOGY textbooks."
Today November 30, 2023 the bias ignoring hydrology at USPTO persists on issued patents:
Thermal/Heat Conductivity 176.074 pat.
Electric/Electrical Conductivity 139.254 pat.
Hydraulic Conductivity 1.329 pat.
Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity 38 pat
Wick/wicking 66.415 pat.
The US Government states that LEGAL WICKING is not technical, being inert to gravity LAW, meaning that LEGAL OIL LAMPS and LEGAL CANDLES can work upsided down. This sort of deceiving is behind the Economic Melting Down of 2008 burning about 41 trillion dollars, also dumping 1,1 million American as the leader of the COVID-19 pandemic catastrophe that took around 7 million lives world widely. In addition, obesity and sedentarism letting human beings miss brain capacity by becoming grumpier and dumber on neurogenesis effect.
Science is our understanding on nature functioning. Humans learn to respect nature early as babies on the first steps taming gravity for walking and running. Soon we understand the consequences of missteping and falling down. Therefore, all issued patents dealing with wick/wicking are CERTAINLY frauded because PATENT EXAMINERS ignored their homework from the beginning of their lives - GRAVITY.
Today November 30, 2023 the bias ignoring hydrology at USPTO persists on issued patents:
Thermal/Heat Conductivity 176.074 pat.
Electric/Electrical Conductivity 139.254 pat.
Hydraulic Conductivity 1.329 pat.
Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity 38 pat
Wick/wicking 66.415 pat.
The US Government states that LEGAL WICKING is not technical, being inert to gravity LAW, meaning that LEGAL OIL LAMPS and LEGAL CANDLES can work upsided down. This sort of deceiving is behind the Economic Melting Down of 2008 burning about 41 trillion dollars, also dumping 1,1 million American as the leader of the COVID-19 pandemic catastrophe that took around 7 million lives world widely. In addition, obesity and sedentarism letting human beings miss brain capacity by becoming grumpier and dumber on neurogenesis effect.
Science is our understanding on nature functioning. Humans learn to respect nature early as babies on the first steps taming gravity for walking and running. Soon we understand the consequences of missteping and falling down. Therefore, all issued patents dealing with wick/wicking are CERTAINLY frauded because PATENT EXAMINERS ignored their homework from the beginning of their lives - GRAVITY.
De: Owen, Steven [mailto:steven.owen@uconn.edu]
Enviada em: quarta-feira, 5 de outubro de 2011 11:36
Para: Elson Silva, PhD
Assunto: RE: {SPAM?} Protecting Hydrology Science from REINVENTION
Mr. Silva, has anyone ever called you a nutcase?
Are people out to get you?
Are you having some trouble keeping up with your medications?
---------------------------------
Steven V. Owen
University Professor Emeritus
Educational Psychology
---------------------------------
Dr. Owen, my medicine is a bit bitter than that one swallowed by Albert Einstein by just stretching his tongue:
____________________________________________________________________________________
This email from an Emeritus Faculty of Educational Psychology provided valuable insights and feedback showing how deep the academic community is compromised on scientific affairs in the US.They were supposed to know that Darcy’s Law on Hydraulic Conductivity is not written in the US constitution, but endorsed by Mother Nature.
____________________________________________________________________________________
Nobel Prize is IMPORTANT TO HUMAN KIND, as 50% is business, 40% politics, 5% bad science and 5% good science from an educated abstraction. Nobel Prize Nomination of Economic Science was introduced to pretend that Human Business could overlap nature functioning. THE US AS THE FIRST ECONOMIC POWER IN THE WORLD GRABBED TWO-THIRDS (411/621) OF NOBEL PRIZE NOMINATIONS FOR SCIENCE. Exploratory Analysis shows that the American scientific community has been violating Hydrology science in the Patenting System more than a century, leaving a gap huge enough for a new science Hydrotechnology. It seems that working with the Chemistry of explosives is far more profitable than the Hydrology of self-watering flower pots. Mr. Alfred Nobel, Arms Dealer and Father of Dynamite, got 355 patents and Albert Einstein got 50 issued patents to portray top scientists claiming intellectual property rights. Obesity, Economic Melt Dow, COVID-19 tragedies, and now Reinvention Policy by USPTO are important evidence of American negligence to science misbalance with Nature.
How much NATURE endorses the Economy and Politics? Sunlight and rain come to us FREE OF CHARGE making the Economy not a science, but a distorted human affair as basic Laws of offer and demand is being replaced by GREED and FEAR. Likewise, recent wars in Ukraine and Israel show us that Politics can’t be science, but a wicked manipulation on human issues wasting innocent lives and spoiling the landscape for weaponry industry profit and disguised interest as Homo sapiens misses simple rationality.
In my neighborhood, I saw the Scientific Police taking pictures of swings I installed on trees for children in the Park during the COVID-19 pandemic lock down. Society try to employ the word SCIENCE for POWER, but there is a misunderstanding as scientific principles claim TRANSPARENCY and HONESTY. Nature is in charge of SCIENCE as there is no POLICE to enforce Nature LAWS. Even religion try to use Scientology for credibility. I like the simple conception that God = Nature. However, Nature writes no books, promises no lands, no life after death, no war or death in name of a divine. In around 4 billions of years of our planet, it seems that we got no aliens to affect our evolution. Most probable we are not leaving our home until the end in 4 to 6 billions of years. Human challenge is to keep nuclear weapons safe, cropping soils, mining our minerals and preserve our home in balance with nature functioning, making our blue planet good for all humans.
What we see in the universe is just for light travelling.
It seems that few scientists do understand the meaning of their titles PhD as Philosophy Doctor coming from Philosophy of Science (Epistemology, Metaphysics, Logics, and History of Science).
____________________________________________________________________________________
20160074861 Portable Analytic Device and Methods of Use Thereof by Phillips; Scott Thomas; (State College, PA) ; Lewis; Gregory Gerald; (State College, PA) ; Ritter; Dustin Wayne; (State College, PA) ; Brooks; Adam; (Dexter, NY).The Pennsylvania State University is taking part in a conspiracy and brainwashing as a reinvention scheme by USPTO letting lay people violate science with flawed patents. Dr. Scott Thomas is a Penn Stater Chemist raping Hydrology in his patent application ignoring Hydrology and quoting wicking 58 times. I took PhD in Soil Science at Penn State and none of my Hydrology, Hydrogeology, and Soil Physics textbooks has a single quotation for wick/wicking.
Far from your eyes, your leaders dared to close theirs to children being raped in the dark.
I sent many letters to President Barack Obama but it was just useless since the government neither care for science nor the coherent functioning of society.
Would you stand to defend science being violated shamefully in your face challenging the credibility of you education and your will to get through cherishing values you assume as genuine?
I must admit that I have doubt on how proud I should be getting a PhD degree bearing a diploma signed by Graham Spanier who did turn his back to children being raped by Jerry Sandusky in the locker-rooms in the campus during a decade. I believed in an American President Bill Clinton lying on my commencement about developing new technologies never imagined before as I decided to pursue a ‘scientific breakthrough (US Pat 6,766,817)’ that is now being shamefully violated by flawed patents from wealthy corrupt lay inventors, scientists, examiners, and patent attorneys. Few weeks later Bill Clinton was caught doing oral sex with Monica Lewinsky. Indeed I happen to be a scientist aware that Hydrology is not going to vanish from our libraries and this issue is just a trial to test our patience because there is no other option besides honesty and respect to mother nature and the principles that are sustaining human society.Some Penn Staters could afford turning their back to the abuse of children. Can you all together ignore the shameful raping of science in the core of the educational and technological system staining the values of your precious values muddling the paths you are endowed?
Please, do not ask me the tools to embrace for this battle, but take a look deep inside on your intellectual resources to reach the goals of your most precious endeavors. Mother Nature whispers many solutions to your ears to a unique problem with variable outcomes to let you get through on many blessed pathways you wisely pick.
I am sure that you can relieve your conscience believing you did not see those poor boys being violated in their innocence we were supposed to protect, but the rape of science is a few inches from your eyes.
‘Conspiracy on Reinvention’ – In partnership with two American Patent Attorneys I opened a company in the US getting issued patents on my ‘scientific breakthrough’ outstanding enough to path the fundaments for a new science I call Hydrotechnology, the hydrology of artificial porosity. Later my partners quit the project arguing that in the US small parties have no chance against the big bully parties. I thought that science was serious and strong enough to stand by itself but now I can realize their decision on such issue. Bill Clinton then American President was on my PhD commencement on May 10, 1996 delivering his first speech for reelection. He said that we were endowed with the highest education that the American society could provide to their citizens as we were going to develop new technologies never imagined before. The underlying truth on leadership is just depressing as Bill Clinton few weeks later was doing oral sex with Monica Lewinsky intern in the White House office. Penn State president Graham Spanier and Joe Paterno coach were covering up a wave of pedophile abuse that lasted a decade letting Jerry Sandusky abuse disadvantaged boys at the university facilities where I got my PhD. President Barack Obama assigned a near obese lady Dr. Regina Benjamin as General Surgeon to guide Americans on a fight against obesity an issue she was failing personally to achieve a balance in the modern landscape. During my PhD I ran a half-marathon in 1h26min. Following this embarrassing trend misguiding human affairs Roche Diagnostics was trying to develop an enhanced porosity for lancets to collect blood for glucose test. This fiugre shows undoubtedly that their scientists had no idea about spatial geometry for fluid conduction missing Hydrogeology insights. So, Roche learned with my patent, copied it, and reinvented again many times like Fig 12 in collusion with USPTO and Law Firms. The positive side is that I indeed created something outstanding for human kind to endure eternity borrowing insights from the beginning of life. The negative side is that instead of thanking me and rewarding my achievement on many years of hard working so I can continue my project developing it further and further. Instead they prefer to steal it with lazy and flawed patents and arrogance colluding with corrupt government officials that are failing disgracefully on their duties. USPTO allows multiple patent files for the same invention, assigns lay examiners covering up their technical background. USPTO is supporting a wave of broad reinvention plot many times with flawed patents from wealthy and lay inventors pretending they know what they are doing, also like Illumina, Medtronic, Carefusion, and many others. As a scientist I must know my own species and the broad range of human absurdity achievable as most scientists do not understand nature principles mainly honesty. Those people do not understand how honesty is powerful on guiding human affairs, like water falling from the sky draining back toward the ocean feeding a water cycle that is unique and never pretend a skewed profile. Humans learn how to respect nature as babies when crawling and learning about gravity so they can walk complying with basic laws of human existence regarding walking mechanics. The punishment for disrespecting nature on missteping is right away on a fall feeling the body smashing to the ground and reaping the rewards for such negligence. A failure to a scientist is the creation or a proposal of a theory or hypothesis that is not endorsed by Mother Nature on its complex functioning that constantly challenges human abstraction for deduction. Honesty is the sole key to peek and grab nature hiding secrets subtle to those ones ignoring the principles.I must say that I happen to be a Penn Stater like you and I have to believe that most of us would never ever let disadvantaged boys be shamefully raped and violated in the campus facilities. Now, the challenge is broader and tougher because science is being violated shamefully by USPTO allowing reinvention with flawed lazy patents ignoring common knowledge from our libraries, the Law and Ethics. By chance I bumped to a huge breakthrough as a technical and scientific gap big enough for a new science. Also, revealing a distortion in the public institutions even larger than the economic meltdown when greed and fear marred basic principles of offer and demand. Now in the patenting system they are stepping over the fundamentals of science as I shall invite you all 93.110 emails below making you aware of this call on this crossroad challenging the principles you learn in your textbooks.
Why scientists want to work with fluid without opening Hydrology textbooks?
How about visiting the Pattee Library and start reading Hydrology, Hydrogeology, and Soil Physics?
Hummingbird Mommy – A continuous pursue of nature balance – Alfred Nobel became wealthy and famous developing the Chemistry of explosive being the father of the dynamite. He even believed to be pacifist but installed 90 weaponry plants. He helped many governments carrying on more efficient wars decimating millions of human beings. Nature blessed him for his dedication with an explosion in his lab in Sweden when he was testing nitroglycerine, taking the lives of five people including his youngest brother Emil. Nature is also blessing me sending a mommy hummingbird to build a nest in a clothesline between clothespins over my head just where I concocted a new science, Hidrotecnologia – The Science of Life, and also helped to create the Organic Residue Injector. Then, I will not be able to receive any Nobel Prize simply because dynamite does not match with hummingbirds, and by chance my youngest daughter is Emily. Is it possible that the Emil’s soul came back with this hummingbird mommy to repair the chaos of human destruction breeding near my head? Let’s root that this blessing from the hummingbird lighten people as Nature starts in front of the mirror . . .
Alfred Nobel made two outstanding mistakes in his entire life. The first one was technological development to annihilate human beings during war conflicts. This was a very profitable economic activity easing the second mistake, putting price on science molding a skewed scientific mentality in the art of comprehension of nature functioning, allowing profitability prevailing over seeking of balance with Nature. Some knowledge created become so important and useful by its low use or vanishing as they are associated to diseases or undesirable harm tenable unexpectedly any time. The actual value of any scientific work cannot be gauged neither by the media that make them public nor by the counting of reading, but by the due coherence with nature that judges and endorses human knowledge.
USPTO Conspiracy V – A Shameful Plot on IP Affairs
‘Scientific Breakthrough’ – Water dynamics through soil porosity was a fresh understanding on my PhD background in Soil Science working with spatial analyses of rainfall distribution in the Amazon Basin in 1996. Hydraulic Zones was a common knowledge I learned in many disciplines at Penn State University, especially Hydrogeology. In early 1998 I was helping my wife tending her African Violets at home making them lush by flooding and draining in a basin. To make the process practical with many flower pots I used cords for ‘wicking’ irrigation. Then, I realized that the cords were made of synthetic fibers and potentially a sort of permanent stable porosity as plastic can resist to biological degradation. The insight was a permanent interface between the Hydraulic Zones Unsaturated/Saturated tenable by an advanced porosity of cylinders that could be modelled with longitudinal prevalent flow. It was not hard to grab that those nylon cords would fail on oil lamps as a ‘wick’, not resisting to the high temperature of flames, burning and deforming. Epistemology of science was contriving an etymological requirement regarding a precise compliance to the conception by deducing that, a fluidic device that fail as a wick cannot be called wick. Furthermore, the classic science Hydrology provides a complex hydrodynamic functioning far beyond oil lamp profile of a porosity feeding fuel to a flame that must be resistant to high temperatures of fire. Exploratory analyses by a hanging drying paper on a wall could portrait this visual spatial dynamics. And, a plastic pot with dried soil would assess the maximum unsaturated flow velocity and water retention dynamics for this granular porosity system. Then, I filed a patent in Brazil and in less than a year the first product was marketed. In the manufacturing process of self-watering flower pots it turned out that around 100,000 pots were failing because the cord braiding was too tight squeezing the pores leaving no room for water movement. Learning with perforations of Xylem and Phloem on sap vessels I had this simple idea of moving the pores inside the fiber upgrading capillarity to an enhanced porosity I dubbed ‘tubarc’ standing for tube + arc. Tubarc would be more resistant to tight braiding also allowing a continuous lateral flow from the cylindrical structure protecting a longitudinal continuous pore in the core. Afterwards I noticed that lay people behind wick/wicking neither understand Hydrology nor the functioning of oil lamps disclosing a huge technical gap lasting more than a century on fluidic devices. Few people know that wick/wicking is Unsaturated Hydraulic Flow moving fluid upward to the flame as this technical expression so common in Soil Science was totally ignored by inventors so far.
