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None of this makes sense ?
D'Couto revived the Trademark application for the PowerChip battery and Powerchip fuel cell.
Yet your reaction to that is that they do not exist.
So you are saying that D'Couto is trademarking a device that does not exist.
Why would you need to trademark a device that does not exist ? and how could you sell a device that does not exist ?
It is a step in the process. Not decades old, as of a couple of weeks ago. You do understand April 21st was 2 fridays past.
JMHO
Bill
You must blabber just to see your disjointed phrases on a board. D'Couto is not "The Man" but he is what we have, no choice about that, he owns too many shares.
He owns more than all of us put together, his greatest motivation would be to increase those shares in value. Its called a Multiplier effect. Where would he generate more wealth ? Increasing his share value ? or collecting 200K a year to not do so ?
It is not gonna happen overnight. Yes, NEAH is a one man operation at this time, although LinkedIn says otherwise, it puts it at about 6 or 7. Tough to say.
One thing I do know is that Trademark's for the Powerchip Battery and the Powerchip Fuel Cell have been revived, most likley went to "abandoned" because someone did not keep up with the paperwork flow.
"Applicant has firsthand knowledge that the failure to respond to the Office Action by the specified deadline was unintentional. The signatory did not receive the Office action prior to the expiration of the six-month response period, and requests the USPTO to revive the abandoned application and reissue the Office Action."
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4808%3Aqaqvo4.1.1&p_search=searchss&p_L=50&BackReference=&p_plural=yes&p_s_PARA1=&p_tagrepl~%3A=PARA1%24LD&expr=PARA1+AND+PARA2&p_s_PARA2=Powerchip&p_tagrepl~%3A=PARA2%24COMB&p_op_ALL=AND&a_default=search&a_search=Submit+Query&a_search=Submit+Query
So as of April 21st the application is once again "LIVE".
So D'Couto is trying to keep it together or, as it is, get it together. From feb to april he wasn't working the trademark issue, what was more important then the trademark application ?
A one man shop can be harrowing, falling behind on some things as you focus on other things, especially when trying to get a small company on its feet after getting to edge of complete failure.
Not the ideal situation, not even a good situation, but this where we are at.
Why would D'Couto waste time and money attempting to revive NEAH trademarks if he is intending to let NEAH die off and steal the IP ?
Why would S4W fix their news links relating to NEAH, if they don't have an active Partnership ? Seriously, if its dead its much easier to leave it dead.
JMHO
Bill
So Paul Sidlo is listed as Co-President and CMO of NEAH.
Does that give him bargaining powers on behalf of NEAH to make enforceable deals in the UAE ?
He may have considerably better marketing talent then D'Couto.
Hopefully these guys can get something in the works.
JMHO
Bill
Well lets look at the last NEWs.
NEAH announced no funding yet...does that help or hurt ?
Seems like the truth hurts. Does that help sell stock ? NOPE.
Does that re-iterate that NEAH moves as slow as molasses ( DOE ), YUP ! does that sell stock ? Nope !
JMHO
Bill
No , i am actually a shareholder and because of that and the fact that I care about even my "high risk" money i do not want them to fail.
That is actually NEWS posted by a different company not NEAH. Since the links were just fixed recently it would enforce that the news is most likely true.
After all , why fix the link so that it can be read if it was old and not valid news. Too bad S4W does not agree with you.
The fact that you do not want it to be true is a personal problem.
JMHO
Bill
You aren't the only one not getting answers to questions.
Yet everybody comes here to communicate with D'Couto as if he is on this board reading every post.
Go ask a question on Facebook or Twitter !
I am not advocating insulting or cursing at them there, that is never constructive and will just have admins removing posts, however a torrent of shareholder questions may get them to fess up.
They may not answer, but it will look bad to have lots of people asking questions that they never answer.
JMHO
Bill
So far nothing.
He really has not hyped anything as was his usual MO. he is remaining uncharacteristically silent. he would usually pop up when he needed to sell stock.
While S4W has claimed NEAH as a partner, he has not hyped the relationship, or even announced or hyped any trial results.
JMHO
Bill
From what I see D'Couto is staying as quiet as he can. Despite shareholder fury.
He is not submitting the 10K or 10Q and somewhat restricting shares traded by insiders because of it. Maybe not such a bad thing.
The cameras will go commercial in late spring despite D'Couto's secretiveness and or inability to provide batteries, there are other battery manufacturers in the world who can provide product. At that point we will have our answer.
JMHO
Bill
Strange logic there.
Do not know what NEAHs status is since D'Couto has gone incomunicado.
However I will inject a quote from the S4W CEO.
"Paul Sault, CEO of S4W noted, “Our engineering staff and consultants immediately recognized the transformative nature of NEAH Power’s Formira HOD™ and PowerChip® solutions, specifically, when incorporated in a highly disruptive product like our Smart Body Cam where continuous power is necessary for delivery of the ever-important personnel and public safety benefits they provide. ?
So he states the intent to use NEAH in the bodycam, so why do you decide it will not be used in the camera ?
S4W recently fixed their news links regarding NEAH and VOXX, I see this as a re-iteration of their partnership with both.
JMHO
Bill
You are correct, without D'Couto coming out and explaining the actual relationships between these companies we cannot be sure what is going on.
It gives some confidence that S4W is not disassociating with NEAH , however we get no actual benefit from anything that is not an actual revenue bearing contract of some type.
Round 3 from the DOE was announced and nothing that has bearing to NEAH was shown, so that remains in LIMBO. Although we do know that the DOE is updating their site so that cannot be blamed as a reason for the Argonne project to not show activity.
The only communication from NEAH is a once a month tweet from them thanking someone ( mysterious ) for their support and or wishing everyone a powerful week.
Will NEAH power anything ? Not if they can't provide batteries, no matter how any trial test has performed.
JMHO
Bill
And that is the problem.
No reason for the company to be silent yet they are.
No Argonne work yet either.
Too many dead ends with no explanation.
Jmho
Bill
It's not just free money.
It's actually low cost services. $300,000.00 and NEAH has to pony up 20% for their part.
We know how D'Couto never likes to pay his part, well in this case the project does not move forward unless he puts his share in. He also has to provide a battery.
In NEAH's case they "Are in the process of sending samples related to the Powerchip Battery " Whatever that means.
Maybe the Grant has changed in scope and it will come out in Round 3. Maybe not.
Kinda funny but only NEAH and some other companies have not showed as "Active" the others are status'd as "Ongoing Negotiations".
How is it that our "Loser" company cannot even get a Grant right ?
Severely discouraged by D'Couto's inability to execute.
JMHO
Bill
As we have seen from the low volume, currently with the STOP sign on it. It looks like the toxic financiers are not converting shares, the price is holding because of this single fact.
If the 10K does not have anything good in it, why would we want to open the floodgates for Summit and Sierra ?
Is this D'Couto's reason for not filing ?
JMHO
Bill
We saw the article about Liquid Image and 200,000 units being bought if trial went well.
Liquid Image went bankrupt. Nothing bought, just a small pump and dump.
Yet the most important aspect of NEAHs future ( DOE ) and they cannot provide a battery to characterize. Either not important to NEAH or they just do not have the ability to produce one. End result where we are at today is just plain bad.
I am not drinking the NEAH Kool Aide until they start earning some dollars which they have never done..EVER.
JMHO
Bill
It no longer matters.
Future speculation will not work without proof of ability to produce batteries.
JMHO
Bill
D'Couto is trying for new suckers, someone posted the Tritente garbage from last year ( no changes ) to try to reel in new "investors" on thier Facebook.
These micro-data centers will not enable service in areas without service already as networks have to be in place before an MVNO can offer service.
MVNO's are virtual meaning they ride someone else's network.
At this point Artilium has not announced any deals with legacy service providers in Africa. That would be the first step. Until that happens there will not be a need for a data center anywhere by them...micro or not.
NEAH needs to prove they can even manufacture a Battery, whether they get S4W to announce test results and then someone to admit they can build some more, nothing changes unless those things happen.
JMHO
Bill
I'm sure Argonne would like to see the battery also. However D'Couto in typical NEAH fashion makes simple things into a Process.
NEAH is in the Process of sending samples to Argonne....next update will probably declare progress in the process of sending ( Not batteries ) but samples related to the Powerchip battery whatever that means.
Lets break that down..."Samples related to the Powerchip Battery" why not say We are sending a "Powerchip Battery" unless they are not actually sending a Powerchip Battery.
Of course D'Couto will never explain that statement. Either way DOE does not say the project is "active" yet and if its not active, then it has not started.
D'Couto could make simple changes in the way he runs things that would elicit much more positive reactions to his business behaviors but does not, either he is clueless or he is a crook. Most opinions here lean in one direction.
JMHO
Bill
Probably not.
Tritente does not have control of the billions they say they do. They are more of a facilitator to deal with local governments for big corporations from foreign countries who actually have the dollars.
So far nothing new from them since the original hyped stores from last summer.
None of these non-existent deals matter until D'Couto does some very basic things and at this time he is unable or unwilling to do some very simple things.
Until he can:
1 - File 10K, 10Q
2 - UPdate on DOE project and why it has not even begun. ( I believe DOE not D'Couto )
3. Deliver a "sample" by that I mean a working battery to Argonne not a material sample.
4. Comment on Patent for battery
5. Update his severely outdated website.
6. Obtain funding, licensing or manufacturing deal - nothing happens without this.
All else is empty speculation much like his touted deal with Liquid Image which it appears was already heading towards bankruptcy when his article about a trial with them came out.
Maybe and I say this with skepticism the 10K not out is his passive aggressive tool against the people who he has obtained funding from in the past, with the stop sign on it, no insiders can trade without SEC penalties. Maybe he is attempting to force concessions from them. Either way until something significant happens its all conjecture.
None of the behavior exhibited by NEAH lately makes sense.
JMHO
Bill
We do not really know whether Kruse or anyone is providing anything to D'Couto. The way he seems to fumble bumble around does not indicate any of that.
Hopefully this company is being sold to someone who can do something with the technology. D'Couto seems to prefer to be in research mode only.
JMHO
Bill
Yes he could have. It would have answered a lot of questions.
I suspect the VOXX camera he had did not have NEAH inside as they cannot even get one to Argonne to characterize help them make them more efficient.
This may be why D'Couto cannot get financing, if he cannot demonstrate his battery works then why would anybody lend him capital ?
Knowing how D'Couto operates he probably just blabs his same bullhockey at everyone and does not actually demonstrate an actual battery. Always relying on his " Its Secret" excuse or hiding behind an NDA.
JMHO
Bill
How much would an Engineer for Eyelock know about the cameras ?
Tough to say, if it really meant anything to VOXX to "debut" their BodyCams they should have had staff from VOXX familiar with their products or even someone from S4W at that booth.
At this point we know nothing about either S4W or NEAH and if they have anything in the pipeline.
D'Couto should realize he cannot sell stock with innuendo and nobody wants to buy a stock with a stop sign on it from the SEC. The only good thing to come from that is that he cannot sell stock.
Maybe it is time to slam NEAHs Twitter and Facebook with questions as you suggested before. They do not respond to anything here.
JMHO
Bill
Interesting that your observation would be that S4W purposefully removed the content and left the links. Yet you choose to ignore the Drone sell sheet listing the NEAH battery and the link page to their partners that all work.
The news links have never worked since they updated their website last year.
It appears that VOXX attempting to push their cameras at ISC West made the mistake of using the Eyelock booth and personnel. That error is on VOXX.
At this point who knows what is happening with NEAH and S4W.
JMHO
Bill
Have you seen what 30 minute tun time drone batteries are selling for ?
I am not understanding what some people are so worked up about. At the end of the week we will have more insight to the VOXX/S4W marketing plan. Will they tout a higher density battery or not? That simple. Will the plan include NEAh ?
D'Couto specifically did not update on this so maybe there is a legit reason other than the D'Couto shuffle.
Jmho
Bill
If VOXX touts runtime as an advantage over the competition then they will need to back up their PR.
They then become engaged in having a high capacity battery in their cameras and in helping those batteries to be produced.
So yes it could indirectly help NEAH.
JMHO
Bill
Short of it.
Voxx will showcase their cameras. VOXX claims 10 hrs of runtime.
VOXX camera developed by S4W.
S4W lists NEAH as a partner and no other battery company.
NEAH claims 5X capacity battery. Lithium Metal anodes known to have at least 5X capacity but not rechargeable due to dendrite growth. Solid State batteries are being touted due to solid electrolyte which dendrites cannot grow thru.
NEAH is using silicon wafer material so they have a solid state electrolyte.
NEAH has 70 million dollars of research into using Silicon for fuel cells and thus has amassed knowledge of Silicon in a power component.
The show is this week and we know D'Couto has been stalling, maybe something will come out of this.
Yes D'Couto has transparency issues, yes NEAH has financial problems, yes to a lot of negatives.
We are having to wait for info anyway. Lets see what the end of the week holds.
JMHO
Bill
I agree with your sentiments exactly.
Just a whole lot of NOTHING from D'Couto.
Everything hinges on funding, yet cannot get funding so how does anything move forward ?
JMHO
Bill
The biggest problem with this is D'Couto does not have a problem with the this noncompliant status.
Jmho
Bill
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Development and production are two very different things.
NEAH needs a licensing agreement or funding in order to be able to produce more than engineering versions of their battery.
They have neither. If D'Couto cannot leverage good results into a contract then we are sunk.
Jmho
Bill
Well, we did not get an update from D'Couto on S4W. So what does that mean ? Does it mean something bad or something good ?
What we know: Neah provided an unspecified number of engineering units to S4W ( others have alluded to 3 ).
What we infer: Initial Trials went well with S4W as they list multiple hours of flight time with NEAH battery.
What this means: At this point NOTHING. Neah does not have the capability to produce what S4W would need or want in the future.
The proof of the statement above: Neah has not provided a battery to Argonne to characterize even 7 months later.
"We are in the process of shipping samples to Argonne National Laboratory related to the PowerChip® battery. We are very optimistic about the performance of the battery based on the performance we have seen to date."
They are in the process of sending SAMPLES related to the PowerChip Battery.
Is it a "sample" of material ? Is it a functional Battery ? This vague garbage from NEAH is typical NEAH and most likely the main reason D'Couto cannot get financing.
Who makes shipping something into an involved process ? Have it, Pack it, ship it Next day Air and Boom ! Its there.
The DOE has not yet acknowledged that the Project with NEAH is active.
The only person who can connect the dots we find on the internet is D'Couto and he has not connected even one dot.
JMHO
Bill
I was honestly expecting this to sell off after the last "update".
It was almost word for word the same as the november update. Not very much effort put into it for it taking so long.
However, despite the negative sentiment it has not sold off, maybe people are waiting to see if anything develops after this week.
JMHO
Bill
As in covering a short ? Interesting . Would explain things.
Jmho
Bill
True or False:
Does NEAH actually have a patent application in for this battery ?
I have searched and cannot find any patent application for said battery. I have found applications and patents for the fuel cells. however nothing describing a battery.
Nothing matching the time frame from when they announced that they had filed.
I would love to be proven wrong.
JMHO
Bill
Mulla was putting out as much information in one post as NEAH does in one year.
JMHO
Bill
Explain what ? I am not the one who has to explain. D'Couto is the one who has to explain.
10K was due end of dec. NEAH filed an inablity to file on time. Last year they filed within 10 days of the late notice.
This year they are at 3 months late by the end of the week, that is a full quarter.
What is in the 10K that he doesn't want seen ? Only explanation is that he is purposely holding it up.
JMHO
Bill
What is D'Couto hiding ?
They announced the release of the update after the 10K and even that was false.
These guys cannot take a step without an untruth sneaking out.
The pattern is suspicious at best.
JMHO
Bill
Apparently he hasn't found anybody willing to complete his 10K and 10Q either.
Bill
Seriously,
This whole period of waiting from when they announced an update was a period of nothing, yet they stretched it out to seem as if something was going on.
They could have said, nothing new in dec, jan, feb and all it would have taken was a one sentence blurb.
This company is going no-where. It seems to be where D'Couto is comfortable.
JMHO
Bill
At this rate, 4 months and it will say the same thing.
Jmho
Bill
What I said is that they included an intention to build 10 initial and then 100. They did not specify the customer.
My meaning is that they should have had a battery to send to Argonne.
Lol
Jmho
Bill
Building 10 then 100 units was in an SEC report not just in a PR.
Bill