Amy, RE: No startup would share their IP, without IP protection. And, if IP protection can't be found in the courts, then the only way to protect your IP, aside from creating development barriers, is to simply block companies from having access to it, which means: no sharing, no cooperation, no licensing (why license and share something that can be legally stolen?).
That seems to be an overreaction to the RMBS situation.
It is quite possible that RMBS didn't develop the IP that they're trying to "protect". In this case, what the courts are appearing to do would strengthen IP based companies, not weaken them.
In my conversations with Rambus, they appear to be most successful at obfuscation. While this could be construed as a rational paranoid response for a company with valuable intellectual property, it could also just be that the company has something to hide. |
