Aug. 14 at 6:15 PM
$LQMT So has anyone read up on why Apple may not really have ownership of the IP being used in the hinge of the iPhone. Based on the agreement Apple made with Lqmt in 2010(when they were desperate for cash), Apple gave them $$$$ for all of the existing IP rights that liquid metal had up until February 5, 2016. Any IP developed after that point, Apple does not have rights to would require some sort of royalty or agreement. Here is where the story gets interesting. The older formulation for liquid metal contains a toxic material, beryllium. In March of 2016, Luger-Li’s investment of
$63 million in liquid metal occurred. That is when a cross licensing agreement which brought Liquidmorphium IP into LQMT. Liquidmorphium, does not contain beryllium, and does not cause cancer. Consumer products cannot contain known carcinogens, regardless of whether it’s safely encapsulated in a solid alloy form.