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It's really weird to me that this can be patented. Not that it's a bad patent, I just thought people had been doing nanometre scale photolithography with other
by strken 3y ago
It's really weird to me that this can be patented. Not that it's a bad patent, I just thought people had been doing nanometre scale photolithography with other metals for decades.
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- rtkwe 3y agoLots of small steps like this get patented and have to be challenged in court before they're released.
- ekianjo 3y agoPatented means it will have lower adoption and fail to store info that will be essential to capture on time
- genewitch 3y agoIBM made a 3 atom wide transistor about 23 years ago, and just for fun constructed a model of the USS Enterprise from Star Trek (and no, i don't know which one, but i'd assume the one from TOS) out of atoms. Then they patented it and tucked it away in their vaults.
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- seanhunter 3y agoSeems a terrible patent: 1)Demonstrably no novelty whatsoever. "My device does what they do just a bit smaller" isn't novelty unless the processes themselves are some kind of breakthrough which these clearly aren't. 2)Not being obvious is one of the conditions for a patent is the US[1]. It seems you could make a strong argument for this being obvious in the sense that a)it is. "We have a thing that stores information by making it small. We want to store more information... I know let's make it smaller." is definitely an obvious chain of reasoning b)to make it more obvious they even helped your argument by naming their thing after the one that's a bit bigger and just changed the name to the next engineering prefix down in scale. 3)Very clearly undermines their whole facade about doing something for the benefit of humanity. [1] https://www.uspto.gov/patents/basics/essentials https://www.uspto.gov/patents/basics/essentials