To be fair, it's a number of useful innovations that have taken decades of research, and would not have otherwise been done without property rights grants some

To be fair, it's a number of useful innovations that have taken decades of research, and would not have otherwise been done without property rights grants some sort of pay-out at the end. And many of the ideas would require a dramatic overhaul of how compilers generate and optimize code, and so they couldn't just be co-opted by existing processor families without breaking compatibility.