http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328535.200-online-spat-over-who-joins-memristor-club.html http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328535.200-online-sp..

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328535.200-online-spat-over-who-joins-memristor-club.html http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328535.200-online-sp... It seems like HP still hasn't been issued patents for it (at least by my googling) so I guess they are happy to just sit on their tech. Also, Memristors are already being actively used for military technology, most notable the SyNAPSE project.