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That's fascinating. Do you know more about the patents? I don't have any example at hand, but often I saw when browsing patents in the space I am interested in,
by varispeed 6y ago
That's fascinating. Do you know more about the patents? I don't have any example at hand, but often I saw when browsing patents in the space I am interested in, that the patented solutions are kind of obvious when you dig deeper into something and the engineers who patented them just got there first. This is very frustrating, because then you need to spend time on finding different way, sometimes more difficult to achieve the same goal. It's like someone learned about numbers and then found that 2x2=4 and patented it, and then you cannot use this equation but instead you have to do like 1+1+2=4 if that makes sense. So my point is - if there is similar situation with these patents, then that kind of explains why there is no real competition.
- nl 6y agoPatents in chip processes are often electo-chemical in nature, which are "obvious" in the sense people know what they want to do, but the exact process for doing it takes years to develop and refine. This is why chip "yields" change over time - the process is slowly tweaked (maybe the temperature get changed 0.001 degree or something) to improve yield. Chip manufactures use a mix of patents and trade secrets to protect their advantages.
- varispeed 6y ago> in the sense people know what they want to do, but the exact process for doing it takes years to develop and refine. That is what makes me dislike the idea of patents - if two or more teams working in silos on developing and refining the process would have gotten similar results, then the process should not be patentable.