HPQ Silicon Inc V.HPQ

New Patent for NOVACIUM/HPQ Silicon

[BCONTVentures]

New patent for NOVACIUM/HPQ Silicon, thanks to @cargo for this:

@cargo The folks at Novacium are top notch, so glad they are on team Bernard:) $PYR METHOD USING A DIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION FURNACE TO PRODUCE 3N OR HIGHER PURITY SILICON SUITABLE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF LI-ION BATTERY ANODES Here is the patent in detail https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2024189227

[dalesio_98]

BCONTVentures, Worth what you are able to defend it with $$. Both $HPQ and $PYR clearly don't have deep pockets, pockets almost inside out.   Good luck to All!  

[Mostlyserious]

Some companies in the battery market space have hundreds of patents.  550 comes to mind as one example I recall seeing in an article recently.

[TOCKY8008]

Mostlyserious, I agree with you that some highly funded and not so funded companies have score of patents in the battery market space. The Novacium patent in question is not a priory a battery related patent. It's a better,cheaper,more ecological way to purify Silicon metal. What is done with that 3N-4N Silicon is up for grab. It could benefit any conpany, being battery related or not. It

[Mostlyserious]

Good.  Novacium is now expert in some silicon production processes. Very complimentary to PYR and HPQ being experts in this field as well. My point remains the same, there are many companies and even individuals that have many patents.  In majority cases nothing is being done with them.    $$$ matters, patents or no patents.  How do you turn something into $$$.  Is

[BCONTVentures]

Great points TOCKY8008 and this patent application looks like NOVACIUM/HPQ is honing in on the QRR (Quartz Reduction Reactor) process to produce the quality of Si that they require, and tuning it for battery use.  

[Mostlyserious]

Great.  So what you are saying, BCONT,  is that they took PYRs/HPQs process, improved it and patented it?  So does this make QRR obsolete?  I guess HPQ gets 25% of this through their partnership ownership.  

[BCONTVentures]

NOVACIUM/HPQ can take the Si produced by HPQ/PYR's QRR, to produce the quality of Si required, and tune/refine it for battery use.  

[patience123]

If there are any similarities in there between this and any previous artwork done by PYR it will get rejected and cited by WIPO.  They cant take artwork from someone elses patend and add to it. Period.

[Mostlyserious]

And if they could, then what if someone finds a tweak to this and patents it?  Lol!  Pumpers just took something that they use to argue as being valuable and just made it sound less so.  Sometimes best not to get into something they don't understand.

[lscfa]

The patent is for a system that makes 3N silicon from 2N but cheaper and higher quality than conventional methods. But it still uses conventional furnace, so isn't the patent superseded by what HPQ can do?   https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2024189227A1/en?oq=WO%2f2024%2f189227  

[lscfa]

It's a patent application, not a patent granted.

[Mostlyserious]

Yeah, much ado about something that is still ways away from monetizing.

[patience123]

Yeah exactly im not sure if i want it granted either.  IMHO any changes to anything patented with regards to PYRs tech should be owned by the HPQ shareholders.  Not sure i like this possible new arrangement of another company (we dont directly own) being able to do this...Anyone here holding Novacium shares??? Yeah i didnt think so.   Is Novacium a separte company to HPQ or a

[TOCKY8008]

The patent application was filed in march 2024,published in Sept 2024. So, it's not new. It was filed after being worked on and certified in house. It was filed because it was needed and agreed upon. From the patent application description : In particular, a purpose of the present invention is to provide a 3N + quality silicon manufacturing method which either: low cost, and whose