Replies to post #22441 on Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

[Anax]

I think you also may be missing something:

The Master Transaction Agreement with Apple was amended to extend through February 2014. As Steipp mentioned in the one Interview, the company wasn`t in a good negotiating position in February 2012. But what do you think will happen in February 2014, if Apple decides to prior introduce Liquidmetal to its products?

Let me give you an example on how much Apple is depended on Crucible Intelectual Property:

A once invented Apple patent about fuel cells using bulk-solidifying amorphous alloys, has been at last assigned to CIP!!!

http://www.google.de/patents/US7862957?dq=collector+plates+of+bulk-solidifying+amorphous+alloys&hl=de&sa=X&ei=0ybtUNTvPMTCtAbQx4CQDQ&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAA

(Apple, Trevor Wende, 4. Jan. 2011)

http://www.google.de/patents/US20120171591?dq=collector+plates+of+bulk-solidifying+amorphous+alloys&hl=de&sa=X&ei=0ybtUNTvPMTCtAbQx4CQDQ&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAQ

(Crucible Intelectual Property, Trevor Wende, 6. März 2012)

IMO we will probably see some first liquidmetal parts in Apples Consumer Electronics in 2014. By then Apple will have to extend its master transaction aggreement with CIP, and eventualy will have to pay other sums, and most likely royalties on their reveneues!!!

Good Luck to all!

[wesd25]

I'm sure once liquidmetal is used in an Apple product, it'll be well known due to the interest it'll generate through the tech blogs... Mainstream news will pick it up, there'll be analysis of the material and other uses for it on science blogs etc.. It'll become well known in its own right, like Gorilla Glass..

Liquidmetal might not get much out of the deal financially at the moment, they have already had 2 lump sums now, but the association will be worth billions in free advertising and will result in instant recognition for liquidmetal. That doesn't factor a further deal after 2014, hopefully more favourable for Liquidmetal.. As Liquidmetal and Apple have over 20 joint patents, it would surely be in both companies interest to continue the relationship..

I wonder about these rumours of the iWatch.. If they were going to use Liquidmetal in a mass market product, I would imagine that it would be clever to first use it in something simple.. OK, you can't get more simple than a sim card ejector, but think about a liquidmetal wrist band (perhaps similar to a Rolex) linked to a liquidmetal body encasing the watch internals..

Small, solid linked liquidmetal pieces, and a liquidmetal frame shouldn't be too technical once they know where the electronics go.. Steipp mentioned that liquidmetal looks like polished chrome when it come out of the mold so it would look aesthetically pleasing without needing any further treatment..

It could be the first product to use liquidmetal extensively, once they have more experience making a mass market product with it, they could then move up to larger bodies like ipods, iphones etc... Just a thought..

The chart is looking even better now, another high volume up day and a close just above a trend line running across the top of the December peaks.. I don't usually bother with what happens intraday but it was interesting to see the sudden buying enter after 2.30pm. It's looking good..

On a side note, these bloody shockwave flash adverts keep crashing and it is driving me NUTS!

[Jollymon1958]

I beg to differ. Just go back a year and look at all the reporting that was done on RUMORS that APPLE was going to use LQMT. No when it happens everyone will know for sure. As for setting up a shell co. or subsidiary I doubt that too. I strongly believe and it is only a gut feeling, that alliances have already been forged in advance to allow for the preparations needed to make this happen. What ever happens in the spring or spring of 2014 is stuff that was negotiated and signed years in advance to allow for:
1. manufacture of the machines needed to make the product
2. Site selection where product is to be made
3. Installation of said equipment
4. Training of the personal
5. Testing and trial runs to guarantee or reduce the likelihood of problems
"IF" APPLE is to use LQMT it is already in the works and I still lean heavily that MTRN is in the mix.