Patent firms ally to enforce CPU "patent litigation dream"

TWO FIRMS HAVE decided to ally to enforce microprocessor patents they own which expire in 2015.

Patriot Scientific, which successfully extracted money from AMD, and the TPL Group had both argued with each other for years who owned certain CPU patents.

But now they have teamed up and have a 10 patent portfolio which TPL Group will "commercialise" and license.

Roger Cook, a chief lawyer with a law firm which licenses patents, described the portfolio as a "patent litigator's dream". And hence a possible nightmare for the CPU firms.

Three of the 10 patents are "elemental to virtually every microprocessor design", the two firms reckon. They are 5,809,336; 6,598,148; and 5,784,584. Like George Orwell, we believe that the use of semicolons is an abhorrence, but there would be way too many commas in that last line otherwise. Sorry George.

Patriot Scientific keeps the right to make and sell array microprocessor products using its Ignite and Inflame brands. µ

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