The patent application seems dubious. Under WIPO guidelines "the invention must be disclosed in an application in a manner sufficiently clear and complete to e

The patent application seems dubious. Under WIPO guidelines "the invention must be disclosed in an application in a manner sufficiently clear and complete to enable it to be replicated by a person with an ordinary level of skill in the relevant technical field." The European Patent Office has a similar rule requiring that it can be "reproducible without undue burden". USPTO says that "the specification must be in clear, full, concise, and exact terms to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which the invention pertains to make and use the same." But as the article says, Google don't actually know what to make the adhesive out of. The patent defines the properties it must have, but presumably no such adhesive exists or they'd know what to make it out of. So, the patent application seems invalid to me. The article also says "of course like many patents, the technology might never materialize," which is entirely at odds with the purpose of patents. One shouldn't, per the rules, be able to get a patent until the technology has materialized.