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Re:E Ink has developed a 2nd generation Advanced Color E-Paper by spoonjim on Sunday January 17, 2021 @03:52PM (#25814838)
If the patent holding company hadn’t bothered, e-ink would barely exist though.
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Re:E Ink has developed a 2nd generation Advanced Color E-Paper by notRobot on Sunday January 17, 2021 @03:59PM (#25814893)
If they'd been less strict with their patents then lots of other companies would've been able to innovate in the space.

See comments about 3D printer from above in the thread:

> Don’t forget 3D printing that also only really started when patents expired.

> Between 2007-2009, 80+ Stratasys patents expired. Think about this - a single company holding back the world in advancing forward in 3D printing.

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