Radek Vodrážka, geologist in the Department of Regional Geology of Sedimentary Formations has authored the first European patent in the Czech Geological Survey ever to be submitted and approved. A very complicated approval procedure taking almost four years preceded granting the European patent status to a unique method focused on calcareous and pyritized fossils recovery from calcareous sediments. This preparation method is based on the rate of solution contrast of a coarse- and fine-crystalline calcite in the 38% sulphuric acid. We congratulate Radek Vodrážka on this remarkable achievement and wish him a lot of similar new ideas. And we conclude with the words said by Thomas Alva Edison: “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
