I would like to clarify further the following statement:

<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.>

The IP that ARM licenses does not require right or left justification. The licensed manufacturer will set it up the way it prefers for a particular application. It could be right, left or a mix of both. That is why the following was so important to ARM:

<The Court construes “instruction groups” to mean “sets of from 1 to a maximum number of sequential instructions, each set being provided to the instruction register as a unit and having a boundary, and in which any operand that is present must be right justified.”

IMHO, the recertified 584 makes no distinction betweem right or left justification of operands. In that case, wouldn't ARM's technology clearly infringe? And wouldn't it be easier to prove ARM infringement based on public documents already existing on their site, than trying to get the secret programming docs from each manufacturer?

Opty