Bitcoin Mining Hardware Accelerator with Optimized Message Datapath

Re:Bitcoin Mining Hardware Accelerator with Optimized Messag... by thecompilr on Monday April 02, 2018 @01:37PM (#16736888)

Intel encourages employees to file all sorts of crappy patents, but I don't see it as a bad or evil practice, but rather as a defensive strategy. Meaning that they don't really enforce patent usage on others, instead they need to have a trove of own patents as defense against patent trolls.

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Re:Bitcoin Mining Hardware Accelerator with Optimized Messag... by gruez on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:02PM (#16737229)

>instead they need to have a trove of own patents as defense against patent trolls

but the whole point of patent trolling is that you're suing via a non-practicing entity, which a shell company that does nothing but hold patents, so there's nothing to sue back at.

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Re:Bitcoin Mining Hardware Accelerator with Optimized Messag... by utopcell on Monday April 02, 2018 @05:50PM (#16739708)

Most likely it doesn't help against trolls but strengthens their position in cross-licensing negotiations with other companies. When a company's portfolio includes many thousands of patents, due diligence to discover the important ones becomes impossible and it's then a numbers game.

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Re:Bitcoin Mining Hardware Accelerator with Optimized Messag... by dec0dedab0de on Monday April 02, 2018 @01:50PM (#16737066)

Except if they go out of business at some point, and all those patents end up in the hands of trolls.

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Re:Bitcoin Mining Hardware Accelerator with Optimized Messag... by Viper007Bond on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:55PM (#16737963)

I don't see Intel going out of business any time soon...

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Re:Bitcoin Mining Hardware Accelerator with Optimized Messag... by john_moscow on Monday April 02, 2018 @04:14PM (#16738820)

Much likely they would get acquired by another BigCo specifically for patents, trademarks, etc.

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