Notton "U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas" You've said enough. Only patent trolls file electronic tech patent suits here. Reply
DS426 Adeia? Reminds me of Ageia. Sounds like judge shopping. Good luck with that. Seems like they're shooting for a settlement, something they've turned to since the licensing talks didn't pay out. Reply
George³ Notton said: "U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas" You've said enough. Only patent trolls file electronic tech patent suits here. Hmm, is Adeia blackmailing AMD in try to give out-of-court settlement? Because financial lost of AMD maybe will greater non matter of Court decision. Reply
rluker5 I thought the hybrid bonding was TSMC and AMD was just ordering it after getting their design to work with it. Shouldn't these guys go after TSMC instead? https://www.semiconductor-digest.com/amd-announces-use-of-tsmc-3d-fabric-for-stacked-vertical-sram-cache-techinsights-confirms-current-ryzen-5950x-is-tsv-capable/ Reply
spongiemaster rluker5 said: I thought the hybrid bonding was TSMC and AMD was just ordering it after getting their design to work with it. Shouldn't these guys go after TSMC instead? https://www.semiconductor-digest.com/amd-announces-use-of-tsmc-3d-fabric-for-stacked-vertical-sram-cache-techinsights-confirms-current-ryzen-5950x-is-tsv-capable/ Correct, but patent trolling foreign companies is more complicated. Adeia is looking for any easy payday which wouldn't be going after TSMC. Reply
thestryker Where have we seen this before: a company that solely exists as a licensing house suing a large company flush with cash. Glancing through the company history it looks more like they've just been a collector of other companies than a producer of anything. They spun off the actual products division so the primary company just exists to fleece money from other companies now. Reply
bit_user I think there's a simple economic solution to the problem of patent trolling. Just make it increasingly expensive to maintain a patent. That way, companies will only hold onto the patents that are fundamental to their business. Patent trolls won't be able to hold on to as many, nor will the bankrupt shells they devour to get them in the first place. Also, it'd be interesting if you could get insurance against being sued by them. So that basically, you'd end up having unlimited funds to fend off patent trolls, without the risk of going out of business, yourself. That would basically nullify the incentive to settle and I'll bet that would dissuade a lot of them. The more you can do to reduce the profit margins of patent trolling, the less attractive it'll be for the investors who fund a lot of these operations. Reply
sygreenblum bit_user said: I think there's a simple economic solution to the problem of patent trolling. Just make it increasingly expensive to maintain a patent. That way, companies will only hold onto the patents that are fundamental to their business. Patent trolls won't be able to hold on to as many, nor will the bankrupt shells they devour to get them in the first place. Also, it'd be interesting if you could get insurance against being sued by them. So that basically, you'd end up having unlimited funds to fend off patent trolls, without the risk of going out of business, yourself. That would basically nullify the incentive to settle and I'll bet that would dissuade a lot of them. The more you can do to reduce the profit margins of patent trolling, the less attractive it'll be for the investors who fund a lot of these operations. I like your idea of progressively expensive patents over time. They should also end no matter what at 10 years, regardless of how much money they want to pay. 20 year patents are just too long in this industry. As far as insurance. Professional gamers insure their hands, adult stars insure their ……… fill in the blank. An insurance company will insure just about anything, for a fee of course. Reply
thestryker bit_user said: I think there's a simple economic solution to the problem of patent trolling. While I do agree your solution would work I think there's a much simpler regulatory solution: If you're not the original owner of a patent (and didn't come by it by way of say familial inheritance) and aren't productizing it (giving a reasonable amount of time for this to happen and make promises to do so legally binding similar to earnings reports) then the patent isn't valid anymore. I do know this has even less a chance of happening than your suggestion, but it'd be faster and simpler. Reply
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