Replies to post #21827 on Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

[Watts Watt]

I am somewhat pleased by your response. I believe you are very intelligent, searching and diligent.

My opinions and thoughts are my own. No one should ever want to endure the horror story which LQMT has been to me.

I grew up in the metallurgical industry. When I first invested in Liquidmetal in October of 2003, I had the same non-jaded outlook as you. Obviously, I am a bit jaundiced sense then.

The things I respect most: integrity, competency in performance and not speaking with a forked tongue, these are the very things I neglected most in my early days with LQMT. Instead, I focused on the technology, the exciting developments I witnessed on monthly visits to CAL TECH to speak with the original researchers of Liquidmetal and the high regard I had for their research and the promise they indicated for the future.

Please keep in mind that all of the military research contracts came to Liquidmetal because of Bill Johnson of Cal Tech and VP and Director of Technology at Liquidmetal Technologies, the predecessors of which, Bill Johnson founded.

The major lesson here: Invest in a company with management which excells, invest in the technology second.

Liquidmetal is the perfect example of where MANAGEMENT delayed the SUCCESSFUL and CONTINUAL commercialization of its once extremely promising technology by squandering money of both the original investors and the many to come after the IPO in May of 2002.

Liquidmetal is 6 years behind where it could have been in 2006 had it not overspent on every budget item and giving away the product for free (Rawlings, Head, baseball bats, skis, rackets)

The Company Management could not focus and, further, it scammed each and every customer it ever had by failure to deliver on time, economically and reliably.

These are the benchmarks for judging new management:
Speak candidly and comprehensively without cherry-picking coded phrases like "in the midst". A CEO has serious ethical issues when he can't speak forth outrightly and candidly the first time around and can't avoid using a cloak of obfuscation and statements of meaningless value to existing and potential shareholders.

[Watts Watt]

I cannot post PM's, LQMTHope.

This is Apple's specific patent for fuel cell collector plates made of bulk metallic glass (Liquidmetal).

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7862957.html

The recent research of Jan Schroers associate indicates

http://www.yourpublicmedia.org/content/wnpr/breakthrough-micro-fuel-cell-research

mass production of micro fuel cells.

Without having detailed access to Andre Taylor's specific paper, it is difficult to compare the two for infringement.

However, what I suspect is that, while Apple has a patent on collector plates, it does not mean that they have available to them the best process technology for making these collector plates.

Apparently, what Yale is doing is research on how to best or most efficiently or optimally manufacture these micro cells. Apple could still be very well, clueless on how to make what they have already patented.

This is not uncommon. Apple is simply taking pre-emptive strikes to limit competition.

Indeed, as JPaige suggested and I as well, Apple will seek to obtain the assignment of this manufacturing technology for its own interests in making the first fuel cell effectively utilizing liquidmetal for micro fuel cells (and/or components [my words])

Rather than conflict, I see collaboration between Apple and Yale, in regards to fuel cells.

The big deal for Liquidmetal, if it ever applies the fuel cell technology acquired from Apple via the technology transfer program is that military contracts for fuel cells made by VPC (with the correct processing equipment (blow molding) would be mind-boggling in the returns it would make to LQMT.