[ksidudwbw]

Patents should be coupled to the product. The patent is hidden and considered in draft mode until a working product matching the patent completely is created and submitted to the patent office to check if it matches the patent.

If you are working as an inventor it's your own responsibility to market and sell your ideas and create appropriate contracts when selling your inventions to someone.

A patent has to go through several layers and areas of concern before finally being approved. The entire approval process must be documented and publically available.

[tracker1]

So, does this mean that ARM can't have patents?

[ksidudwbw]

That all connects to a working end implementation, which can be presented to the patent process. ARM would need to contractually secure themselves on their own untill an implementation can be presented though