I have a few difficulties with what you are saying in the following passages.

<Besides that, if ARM was to take the cheap way out and buy a MMP license, the Quanta case would stop us from targeting down stream companies based on just ARM's microprocessors. The fact is that if a company has infringed the 584, they have also infringed at least the 336, and a few other patents. TPL/PTSC's strategy is to target downstream companies, not the chip manufactures.

There are so many downstream companies to choose from, there is no reason to go up against a major chip Manufacture until almost the last day we can legally do it and that assumes we have some mad money to spend for legal fees. In that event, the major chip manufactures would probably settle for nuisance value.>

Why would the ARM license be cheap? In the case of ARM and the 584, it would be easier to prove infringement by ARM than to attempt to prove infringement by each chip manufacturer or downstream user of those chips. Anyway, would not ARM intervene? Also, you seem to forget that ARM is not a chip maker. It licenses technology. Isn't that a different animal than the chip makers and the downstream users?

Opty