> Paul... How serious are you about getting a consortium going to buy the
 > tooling and rights for the wankel. Jurgen wanted a fair amount of money for
 > myself and a canadian to manufacture the engine in Canada. Do you have any
 > contact with him now to find out what the bankruptcy court would offer the
 > tooling for sale at?   JIM DANA

 I am serious. I don't have a whole lot of money to invest. But I will
 bet we can find enough people that would be interested in putting up
 what ever money it takes. Mark Wrathal and I are both trying to get in
 touch with Juergen. Mark, what about contacting the bankruptcy court
 over there?
  >>

I could understand paying for tooling but I would be very skeptical of the
"value" of their patents given that you could copy a Mazda with no patent
infringement at this point.

Jeff Spitzer

I am with you on that Jeff. There are very few useful patents on rotary engines
that have not run out. I would want to see the tooling before I paid
that much money. I am not even sure if the good will is all that valuable.


Paul Lamar
 
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