I went to Berkeley and I still drop by to sit in on lectures. The IP department has always been terrible to deal with. They really are the opposite of Stanford

I went to Berkeley and I still drop by to sit in on lectures. The IP department has always been terrible to deal with. They really are the opposite of Stanford with regards to IP. A pain to deal with, everything up front. Very hostile to startups. This probably puts SiFive in limbo. They (the IP dept) lost a first rate EE prof (Howe) over nonsense like this. Their glory days of the BSD lawsuit are long over.