So Rainer, FJ and Abel, what are you waiting for, an invitation? :-) If so then I'm officially inviting you to speak up, because I can't be the only one here who's dying to know what you have to say about this patent!

I won't pretend I'm capable of any more than barely scratching the surface of understanding this thing, but if I'm interpreting it correctly then isn't this THE patent that describes the POET manufacturing process for optoelectronic integrated circuits on GaAs (and other III-V substrates)? Isn't this what they've been working for so long to transfer from lab to fab, and to third party foundries? Doesn't this patent describe how POET chips are made?

If I'm right then wouldn't the granting of this patent allow POET to relax some of its NDAs, because a) the intellectual property is now protected by patent law so protection by secrecy is no longer necessary, and b) the POET manufacturing process has just been published, so secrecy is pointless anyway? :-)

So what do you think? Do you feel like I'm on the right track, or was this thing so far over my head that I completely misinterpreted it?

And apropos of nothing, what's up with POET doing nothing about the trademark that expired in April? If someone hasn't already done so I would suggest adding that to any questions being sent to the new IR team, or perhaps someone could ask during the quarterly call that should be coming up in the immediate future...?