With the exception of 2010, 2014 has been the best year for patents being granted, but 2014 isn't over yet, is it!.
I'm not sure whether Translucent could possibly hasten the patent process or not?
I very much doubt that they could somehow!
but there seems to be a sudden rush on approvals recently, doesn't there?
Was the timing of this planned or was it just the natural progression of the patent process, I believe it was the latter somehow?
People here need to understand that without patent protection, Translucent would be between a rock and a hard place if they wanted to either, License, Sell, or even use their own IP in any production run that they wanted, they would have been crazy to attempt any of those things without patent protection, and these things take time, this could be the main reason for the delays in bringing their technologies to market, it is just something else that the management at Translucent?Silex had no control over, it's similar to when GLE made it's decision to go slow, you will notice they didn't say "we don't want the tech" did they? GLE have their reasons for going slow, the demand to LEU being one of them I suppose, but that will change soon, that was also beyond Silex managements control wasn't it?
We also had the fact, that the Australia Government is against renewable's,
they are backing the dirty coal fired power industry, with whom they are in bed with, for a short while anyway!
That was also beyond the control of Silex management as well, but what will definitely mean one thing for sure, the leading edge technology that Solar Systems have will now go O/S, you can blame the Oz government for that,
and during all of this we had the GFC going on in the background and of course we had the grand daddy of them all, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, I suppose there are some here who will blame Silex management for that too.
Our company has faced a perfect storm in many ways, but now comes the time when they must deliver, that much I can agree on, and with some of these patents now bedded down, I believe that time is getting nearer, I believe management has been waiting on the approval of some of these patents before making their move, something I believe was wise on managements part, because if they had moved before they were granted, well you know the story about how technology is stolen.
Patents
2014
US 8,835,955 IIIOxNy on single crystal SOI substrate and III N growth platform
US 8,796,121 Stress mitigating amorphous SiO2 interlayer