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Re:Ask HN: where do you draw the patent research line? by pclark on Monday May 18, 2009 @06:59AM (#614754)
From the protection side, imho, if you have to rely on patents to protect your business, you're probably doing it wrong.

Sucks to be ARM/Qualcomm/Broadcom/$ChipFirm right now.

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Re:Ask HN: where do you draw the patent research line? by swombat on Monday May 18, 2009 @08:51AM (#614873)
I should have said, "If you have to rely on patents to protect your start-up, you're doing it wrong" (valid for 99% of start-ups).
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Re:Ask HN: where do you draw the patent research line? by cjg on Monday May 18, 2009 @08:47AM (#614864)
Not quite sure why you lump ARM in with Qualcomm and Broadcom. I would think it would be great to be ARM right now with more than 10 billion ARM processors on the planet.
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Re:Ask HN: where do you draw the patent research line? by pclark on Monday May 18, 2009 @09:59AM (#614975)
was just the first "big" hardware name that came to mind. (they're in my city)
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