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by lindowe 3401 days ago
Infringement of patents (the ’273 patent, entitled “Microrod Compression of Laser Beam in Combination with Transmit Lens")
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Infringement, yes, but how can you 'steal' a patent?
That was exactly my point. Patents are definitionally impossible to steal (unless, I guess, you somehow are able to get access to the patent database and change the patent holder?)
That's not a very interesting patent. It's basically some optical stuff to do LIDAR scanning with non-square pixels, presumably because you want more resolution in one axis than the other. That's nice, but not a big improvement over existing technology.