Re: Maybe we shouldn't be waiting ... Toxic et al/ease
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Feb 02, 2012 09:51PM
If we accused chips that don't have variable speed ring oscillators within the central processing unit which would be used for clocking the chips that essentially run the electronics that Barco fabricates we are in trouble. There are memory portions of the other patents outside of the 336 and 148 that i havent spent much time investigating so I am only speaking about the 336 and 148 patents. According to what TPL asserts against the semiconductor industry the vast majority of chips are architected with MMP technology. So there really aren't other chips unless we win some claims and lose some claims in the Markman ruling. The variable speed ring oscillator is a basic building block of a microprocessor. An analogy would be the 336 and 148 patents cover all transmissions in all machinery (cars, forklifts, elevators, etc.), and covers automatic or manual. The current litigation will most likely prove the 336 and 148 are found or not found in all machinery. So if we lose from a clocking perspective in this litigation, we will most likely not be able to assert the 336 and 148 against any other companies. Of course there would be the 'memory' patents that we could assert going forward, but I suspect the same holds true for them as the above 336 and 148. In my opinion, this is an all or nothing proposition. We win or lose here.