Natcore Technology Inc (NTCXF)

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I haven't followed the NXT thread for the 2002 filing issued in 2011, but that is not possible to delay the examination that long. No matter how long it is delayed, the expiry clock ticks from the earliest date of the provisional filing (Dec 2010 in my case or the patent was filed (looks like 2002 per your note but that may be a provisional.)
I am not an expert but believe examination takes place within 1 year of patent filing and you can pay a penalty to push it back one more year. That is the end of the delays though. You can pay extra to speed it up too, but NXT wouldn't do that and tip their competitors off while they could be doing their own research on it and perhaps improving and adding a new patent.
My friend's patent is a scientific thing that the leading manufacturer was testing recently. Either he steals it from us small fry, perhaps by enhancing it enough with some improvement after claiming it doesn't work or he will buy us out. It seems to work bssed on our own testing and after showing it to 2 sceptics who changed their tune, but even testing it to the nth degree to see if it really does what it seems to do is past our resources, so we showed it to him to see if he would buy it. It is top secret until we can find if he or his competitors will buy it, although since our testing resources are so tiny it is a secret only so the big mfgr. can use the time to improve it and get it to market this summer ahead of his competitors. Not that the competitors would have any claim on it, but a full blown launch of a game changing product is even stronger when the competitors don't have an inkling of what is coming.
I don't think I am adding more to NXT by discussing this thing any more,however science will have to be rewritten in this area whether it does or doesn't work nicely enough for people to buy it, because we have already made something physically happen that the schools say could not happen.