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Buggo90, my personal thoughts to answer your question. Maybe Archer have been offered patent buy-outs by IBM, and they've declined it because they believe in their ideas and capabilities, and want to retain ownership for a longer term plan. The large corporations are all focusing on greater qubits, not room temperature qubits, because they can afford to do so. Archer are developing a new innovative technology and there's a lot further to go to see it through development before they'll just give up and make a small buck selling a patent which no one else in the world might even know what to do with.