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The nature of patents is that it is mostly public information anyway and free to use after the patents expire. That works both ways of course, the Chinese have
by jillesvangurp 5y ago
The nature of patents is that it is mostly public information anyway and free to use after the patents expire. That works both ways of course, the Chinese have some pretty fancy technology in other fields that manufacturers in the EU or US might benefit from.
Of course with chips, patents and know how that e.g. Intel or ASML have are two things.
Ultimately this is good as it drives companies to continue innovating. Intel's current problems are related to them forgetting to do that.
- m0zg 5y agoPrecisely. A billion ways to get things wrong, and if you get it wrong it doesn't work. And the info to get it to work is unlikely to be in the patents. You have to have folks who worked with this stuff before, which is difficult, but doable. And as far as "innovating" in this field, we're almost at the end of the run - there are, as far as I'm aware, no processes planned beyond 3nm, and even 3nm is astonomically complex and expensive.
- 988747 5y ago>> patents and know how that e.g. Intel or ASML have are two things. Shouldn't that make the patent invalid? I thought the requirement is that the patent should give enough info so that "person skilled in the art" can reproduce the invention.
- swiftcoder 5y ago"skilled in the art" is somewhat irrelevant if that skill takes a couple of decades and a $120 million machine to develop...