The patents have nothing to do with it. E-ink is expensive because it's a niche product with low scale - LCD screens are produced by the BILLIONS per quarter, a

The patents have nothing to do with it. E-ink is expensive because it's a niche product with low scale - LCD screens are produced by the BILLIONS per quarter, and you probably have a dozen different devices with one. E-Ink does basically nothing that an LCD can't substitute for, and it's more expensive than LCD so nobody bothers. "Patents" are a conspiracy cited without real evidence. It ignores that *E-INK HAS COMPETITION* (DES/Display Electronic Slurry screens). If E-ink corp were price-gouging then GoodDisplay would have eaten their lunch by now. To be specific here, the conspiracy isn't that E-Ink patents exist - E-Ink patents do exist (some expired, but E-Ink corp are registering new patents as they innovate), but there are tons of LCD patents also. The conspiracy is the claim that patents are causing price-gouging and high prices that hold up adoption of the tech.