Dig Out Your Patents, And Watch What You Use … $1.1 billion for a Patent Breach
And Robert J McEliece, RIP
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3 min readMay 9, 2022
I have a number of patents to my name. We did these patents to protect our spin-out companies from entering the market and did not have any intention to go after others who breached it. But, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has shown the power of patents by winning a $1.1 billion patent case against Apple and Broadcom:
Caltech is also suing Microsoft, HP, Dell and Samsung for the same patent breach — and which are still pending. The focus is on four patents (7,116,710, 7,421,032, 7,916,781, 8,284,833):
