Au PCWorld
But I would dispute the comments of Nathan Brookwood
"Patriot bought the IP and started looking at everybody's chips and discovered, lo and behold, almost everybody is using this particular technology," said Nathan Brookwood, principal at Insight 64.
Patriot is what is known in the industry as a patent troll, added Brookwood, mainly because it did not create the patent but rather bought the patent and then went out, trolling, to discover who might be in violation of it.
As we all know, the truth is a lot more complicated. Those of you in contact with Mr. Schwartz might want to point out to him that Mr Brookwood's characterization is extremely simplistic and reflects a bias against PTSC.
Here is my brief bullet point of the actual timeline (corrections/additions welcome)
- 1991 -Fish transferred the patents with Nanotronics
- 1994 - Nanotronics was purchased by Patriot
- 199? - Fish sued Patriot for the patents
- 2003 - Patriot won the rights to the patents
- 2003 - Patriot initiated IP enforcement
Mr. Brookwood suggests that PTSC bought the patents and immediately started looking for someone to sue. As suggested by the timeline, the truth is much more interesting.
