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>If your sole source of revenue is licensing the patents that you've created, you're a patent troll. Isn't that essentially ARM's business model?
by commandar 16y ago
>If your sole source of revenue is licensing the patents that you've created, you're a patent troll.
Isn't that essentially ARM's business model?
- jcromartie 16y agoARM actually designs and licenses whole chip architectures. You can license a design from ARM and have it built it without much additional engineering.
- unexpected 16y agoI don't include ARM in this list b/c they actually market their products and their whole business model revolves around taking the "headache" out of the R&D of chip design. ARM aggressively markets their products and chip designs, showing benchmarks of their technologies. Most patent trolls fly under the radar, trying not to get noticed, so a major corporation can violate the patent in a huge, best-selling product. Then, they can claim "well, you should have checked all available technologies" - which is a huge waste of effort. There's no incentive for patent trolls to aggressively market their products, b/c that doesn't bring the biggest returns. Look at this suit that just went against Apple - if Apple had negotiated a long-term license with them back in 2004, it would have been on really bad terms - no one knew that the iPhone would be this successful (except for maybe Apple). There are perverse incentives in place to try and "hide" the patent as much as possible, and then wait for the biggest fish to show up. One really big fish is worth a thousand smaller fish, and when a really big fish falls, it discourages all the small fish from entering the marketplace all together - to the detriment of everyone.