Ghanaian Scores Hat-Trick

The United Kingdom Patent Office has granted patent right to Colonel Kofi Abaka Jackson, a retired Air Force instructor and one of Ghana?s prolitic inventors, for turbine engines he has developed.

A letter from the Patent Office, Concept House, Cardiff Road, New Port, South Wales, to Col. Jackson dated February 17, 2004, notified him of the Grant of Patent Status. The letter, signed by Mr. Ron Marchant, Controller General of Patents in the UK, said ?the office is pleased to inform you that your patent application number GB9925856B complied with the requirements of the Act and Rules, and that you have been granted the patent as from the date of this letter?.

Col. Jackson, from Senya Bereku, in the Central Region, is expected to be honoured with the award of the patent when it is published in the Patents and Designs Journal on 17th March, 2004. This is the third time Col. Jackson has been awarded patent for his inventions.

The first patent was awarded in 1998 for vertical shaft turbine system for harnessing energy from natural flow of fluids such as wind, flowing rivers and sea tides which could generate hydro power without a dam.

The second patent was for a diabetes therapy based on edibles including garlic and temperate plants.