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Re:BlackBerry sells mobile patents to patent troll for $600M by yread on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @09:51AM (#30163198)
Is ARM productive? They're not making CPUs themselves...
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Re:BlackBerry sells mobile patents to patent troll for $600M by marcan_42 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @10:03AM (#30163365)
They make CPU designs which they license out. That's copyrighted IP, and thus a product.

If ARM stopped making CPU designs and decided to just live off of their ISA patents while doing little to no actual development, yeah, then they certainly shouldn't have the right to be milking that cow in perpetuity, in an ideal world.

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Re:BlackBerry sells mobile patents to patent troll for $600M by s1artibartfast on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @04:23PM (#30169515)
They shouldn't have the right to sell their existing designs until the patent expires?

This is the current system

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Re:BlackBerry sells mobile patents to patent troll for $600M by bmitc on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @09:53AM (#30163217)
Do patent trolls spend billions of dollars designing CPUs or whatever else they hold patents on?
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