[pyaamb]

This is great news and I can only hope for something similar to transpire with e-ink patents. fingers crossed

[userbinator]

Many of those may be actually getting close to expiry if not expired already - the technology is over 20 years old by now.

[unsupp0rted]

I remember doing a report in high school chemistry class, 75 years ago, on the promise of e-ink technology.

[choeger]

You talked about e-ink in high school in 1950?

[pentamassiv]

That must have been a typo, sarcasm or trolling. Looking at the users other submissions, they seem to have parents [1], go to the gym [2] and use Tinder [3] which seems unlikely if they are ~90 years old.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38133254 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39370419 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35006052

[unsupp0rted]

It was an exaggeration. High school was decades ago, but it feels like a million years. We thought e-ink tech would be widespread within a handful of years. Little did we know.

[silexia]

I'd love to see the entire patent system abolished. Ideas are worthless, execution is everything.

[bonestamp2]

interesting, what kinds of things are being held back in the meantime? Or, just price/competition?