News China's SMEE files patent for an EUV chipmaking tool — tool aims to break the shackles of ASML export restrictions

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Shanghai Microelectronics Equipment patents key components of an EUV lithography tool.

China's SMEE files patent for an EUV chipmaking tool — tool aims to break the shackles of ASML export restrictions : Read more

 

[NinoPino]

Nice article. Thanks.

 

[The Historical Fidelity]

I don’t understand how this isn’t patent-Infringement. The description of the SMEE patent is verbatim the original EUV patent that ASML uses.

 

[nookoool]

I don’t understand how this isn’t patent-Infringement. The description of the SMEE patent is verbatim the original EUV patent that ASML uses.

Why would they care about patent if you ban the sales of the product?

 

[Naervern]

I don’t understand how this isn’t patent-Infringement. The description of the SMEE patent is verbatim the original EUV patent that ASML uses.

Patents have the scope of a market (usually a single country or trade association). It's only infringement if they try to market it in a place where such patent exists. Though given how the tech embargo has been going, I guess this case is just busted up. For example, ASML could try to sue SMEE in China if ASML has a patent there. Don't see that happening...