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Bearden: Investigator site log (STEP I)

Run 2026-10-05 (first Investigator run; run on request; 10-minute cap, about 6.7 minutes of browsing used, stopped early to write notes). Chrome used throughout. No files downloaded: downloading needs the owner's explicit approval, so research/files/ is empty; each note gives the download URL. Owner's direction for this run: the MEG patent US 6,362,718 file wrapper and family, the Naudin replication record, any other measured MEG replication, and records of Magnetic Energy Ltd and Bearden's demonstrations.

Site URL First checked Last checked Queries tried Result Recheck? Notes
Google Patents https://patents.google.com/patent/US6362718B1/en 2026-10-05 2026-10-05 US6362718B1 page; EP1446862B1 page; "motionless electromagnetic generator" inventor:Bearden positive yes Assignment to Magnetic Energy Ltd (2006), security agreement to Colmac Holdings Ltd, Canada (2006); fees paid to year 12; continuation 10/081,847; EP 1446862 B1 granted 2013 with self-powering loop in claim 1; EP text lacks the COP plot. research/2026-10-05-google-patents.md
European Patent Register https://register.epo.org/application?number=EP01988155&lng=en&tab=doclist 2026-10-05 2026-10-05 EP01988155 partial yes 92-document file; 2006 annex pp.1-3 read (novelty vs US 4,006,401, inventive step); viewer stalled; 2007/2009 replies, 2008 annex, 2013 minutes unread. research/2026-10-05-epo-register.md
Internet Archive (USPTO file wrappers) https://archive.org/details/gov.uspto.patents.application.10081847 2026-10-05 2026-10-05 item 10081847; item 09656313 (not found) positive yes Full wrapper of continuation: 101 rejection on thermodynamics, examiner's demonstration request, Bearden declaration and remarks, final rejection, abandonment 2005. Parent 09/656,313 not on archive.org. research/2026-10-05-archive-org-uspto.md
JLN Labs (Naudin) http://jnaudin.free.fr/meg/meg.htm 2026-10-05 (blocked to scripted fetch in arbiter run) 2026-10-05 meg.htm, megv21.htm, ths720p.htm, megnot01.htm positive yes Now reachable in Chrome. Naudin v2.1 status (apparent output > load heat; nonlinear load required; calorimetry not done); Tektronix note that scope "RMS power" on math waveforms is invalid; Flickinger COP 1.75-5 only with MOV loads. research/2026-10-05-jlnlabs.md
cheniere.org (Bearden's site) http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/081502.htm 2026-10-05 2026-10-05 081502.htm blocked yes Domain shows only a privacy banner, no content (defunct or parked). Use mirror.
cheniere.org mirror (billstclair.com) https://billstclair.com/www.cheniere.org/correspondence/081502.htm 2026-10-05 (arbiter used it for 120200.htm) 2026-10-05 081502.htm positive yes Bearden 15 Aug 2002: small experimental devices only; $9M/yr x 3 sought; demonstrations only to prospective financiers. research/2026-10-05-cheniere-mirror.md
Alabama Secretary of State, business entities https://arc-sos.state.al.us/CGI/CORPNAME.MBR/INPUT 2026-10-05 2026-10-05 Name "Magnetic Energy" (all types/places/statuses) negative no Only an unrelated non-profit. research/2026-10-05-company-records.md
USPTO Assignment (legacy) https://assignment.uspto.gov/patent/index.html 2026-10-05 2026-10-05 patent 6362718 blocked yes Chrome error page (site appears retired). Try Assignment Center.
Google web search https://www.google.com 2026-10-05 2026-10-05 see Keywords positive yes Led to the archive.org wrapper, PlainSite docket, company directory listings.
Earlier review web checks (arbiter/reviewers, not rechecked this run) novakcorp.com megv2.htm; zpenergy.com sid=3918; rootaction.net megstatus.htm; billstclair 120200.htm; patents.google.com US5430413A (Fogal); link.springer.com (Evans 2001, login wall) before 2026-10-05 not rechecked per arbiter.md Checks 1-10 positive (Springer blocked) yes Listed so the next run rechecks them.
Not reached (time limit) Espacenet / JP, CN, KR, IL family members; USPTO Patent Center for 09/656,313; USPTO Assignment Center reel/frame 017759/0537; Corporations Canada (Colmac Holdings Limited); rexresearch and amasci (Sweet VTA, Fogal); Naudin meg4cf.htm and later builds; ZPEnergy "Letter to JLN Laboratories"; pdfcoffee "Solving the Energy Crisis"; Bishop "In Disdain of Garbage Physics" - - - not reached (time limit) yes Start here next run.

Keywords tried

  • Google Patents: US6362718B1; EP1446862B1; ("motionless electromagnetic generator") inventor:Bearden; US20020097013A1 (wrong guess, Bedini patent)
  • EPO Register: EP01988155
  • Google: "Magnetic Energy Ltd" Huntsville Alabama; "Colmac Holdings" "Magnetic Energy"; "Power generation within a motionless electromagnetic generator"; "motionless electromagnetic generator" replication measured COP Flickinger OR calorimetric OR "failed"
  • Alabama SOS: "Magnetic Energy"
  • archive.org: gov.uspto.patents.application.10081847; gov.uspto.patents.application.09656313
  • Naudin site: meg.htm, megv21.htm, ths720p.htm, megnot01.htm
  • Not yet tried: "Magnetic Energy, Ltd." with Delaware/Nevada/Canada; "Colmac Holdings Limited" alone; Patrick/Hayes/Moore/Kenny with "MEG"; "MEG" Bearden 2005-2010 news; WO 02/41347 or the PCT number (not yet confirmed); French/German searches on Galley FR 2,312,135; "Bearden" "noncircumvention"; "Energy from the Vacuum" Bearden 2002 reviews; Ritson Nature 421 575 (2003).

Leads for review

1. The inventor's own work

  • MEG mechanism in Bearden's own words, filed with the USPTO (2004-05-24 remarks and declaration, continuation 10/081,847): broken-symmetry dipole absorbing vacuum energy (Lee-Yang 1957), Prigogine dissipative structure, Whittaker decomposition; Aharonov-Bohm localisation of B in the core leaving a curl-free A outside, with sharp pulses giving extra E = -dA/dt energy to the coils; COP vs efficiency; feedback example (COP 5 open loop -> self-powered); Kron's negative resistor; GR non-conservation; negative energy; "time-energy". Bears on claims 1, 2, 4, 5: it is the documented link between the theory (claims 1-4) and the MEG that the arbiter found missing from the patent. [web: archive.org, see research note]
  • EP 1 446 862 B1 (granted 2013-10-23): the European claim 1 requires non-saturating switching and feedback of output power to drive the switching circuit (self-powering). The granted description omits the COP plot and the "all COP > 1" sentences while keeping the 3.44 extrapolation. Bears on claim 5. [web: patents.google.com/patent/EP1446862B1/en]
  • Bearden letter 15 Aug 2002: state of the company (experimental devices only; funding sought; investor-only demonstrations; planned 2.5 kW and 10 kW units). Bears on claim 5 and its absence-of-evidence analysis. [web: billstclair mirror]
  • Found. Phys. Lett. 14(1) 2001 MEG paper: author list on Naudin's index includes T. E. Bearden (confirms the arbiter's Check 10 [memory, medium] as [web]). [web: jnaudin.free.fr/meg/meg.htm]

2. Supporting information by others (and evidence bearing against)

  • Naudin MEG v2.1 status (12-06-00): output signals measured by several instruments, voltage and current in phase, a lamp load case (1.5 W input attributed to the lamp vs 6.76 W measured output); but excess appears only with a "conditioned" carbon resistor or MOV load, the apparent output exceeded the Joule heat in the load, calorimetry and loop closure not done, and "measurement artifacts remain possible". Bears on claim 5 (measured COP). [web: jnaudin.free.fr/meg/megv21.htm]
  • Jon Flickinger (independent builder): COP 1.75 to 5 with MOV loads; no excess with linear resistive loads; open call for anyone to show COP > 1 with linear loads. Bears on claim 5. [web: jnaudin.free.fr/meg/megnot01.htm]
  • Tektronix support statement (2002, forwarded by Flickinger, posted by Naudin): scope-math "RMS power" on non-sinusoidal waveforms "is bogus"; true power is the mean of v(t) i(t). The patent states its power figures "agree with RMS power measured using a Textronic THS730". Bears on claim 5: the instrument maker's characterization of the measurement method the patent cites. [web: jnaudin.free.fr/meg/ths720p.htm]
  • Earlier flux-switching "static generators" used as prior art by the EPO and listed by Naudin: Galley FR 2,312,135 (1975); deRivas US 4,006,401 (1977); Richardson US 4,077,001 (1978); Garron US 3,368,141 (1968); Toffolo US 3,087,108; Flynn WO 00/07285 (Parallel Path Technology, Magnetic Revolutions). The EPO found the MEG structure itself anticipated by US 4,006,401, with novelty only in driving the switching from the device's own output. Bears on claim 5. [web: EPO Register annex 18.09.2006; jnaudin.free.fr/meg/meg.htm]

4. The historical record

  • USPTO continuation 10/081,847 (filed 2002-02-26): examiner Shawn Riley rejected all claims under 35 USC 101 as violating the first and second laws (2004-01-23), requested a model/demonstration, refused to hold that request in abeyance (final rejection 2004-07-26); the applicants did not respond and the application was abandoned (2005-05-16). The only official demonstration request found, and it went unanswered. Bears on claim 5 and on "dismissed without testing" vs "never properly tested". [web: archive.org item; PlainSite docket]
  • US 6,362,718 legal events: patent stood in the inventors' names until a 2006 nunc pro tunc assignment to Magnetic Energy, Ltd. (Alabama); 2006 security agreement in favour of Colmac Holdings Limited, Canada; lapse and reinstatement 2006; fees paid to year 12 (2013). Bears on the absence-of-evidence explanations (commercial failure, absorption into another firm). [web: patents.google.com/patent/US6362718B1/en]
  • EPO file EP01988155: 12-year prosecution with two "deemed withdrawn" episodes (2009, 2012) cured by further processing; grant 2013; no opposition. Shows sustained spending on European protection through 2013. [web: EPO Register]
  • Alabama Secretary of State: no entity named "Magnetic Energy" registered. Bears on "what happened to the company". [web: arc-sos.state.al.us]
  • cheniere.org no longer serves Bearden's site; the billstclair.com mirror does.