TPL is suing the manufaturing END-users. Most end users sell a product with many chips from many different suppliers.
Now perhpas Intel got their license on the cheap but that was a foundational event that allowed a path to be lain to the other corporate treasuries.
Kind of tough to say the patent is invalid after Intel purchased a license.
So imagine you are dell and you sell a laptop, not every chip is intel based
so TPL goes after Dell.
More importantly the next step is when TPL sues Honda, Toyota, Ford,
Mitsubushi Motors, Mecedes Benz, GM etc,
TPL is not going after chip manufacturers they are attacking the systems manufactirers If you use Intel chips only then you're fine but how many iPods use intel chips?
The embedded chip market is where the real money will be made because
that is whete TPL and PTSC both compete and where the most damage
was done by the infringers.
I can;t quantify the total monies collectable but it can be vast if or shoudl I
say when we are successful in Texas.
That as I say is the J3's advantage cave in and pay less but stomp out all future litigation and just quibble over how many 10's of millions will be paid,