So they lost their patent dispute in the United States, and are trying to go after them in the EU through a shell company? Wow. The irony of two US-based companies duking it out in German court over a US-based patent that isn't used in any R2 products sold in the EU (or anywhere on Earth) is a pretty desperate money grab.
Who is "R2 Semiconductor"? I can't even find a wikipedia page about them. And they claim to have been around for 15 years?
I looked at their web page and they can't even show products with their... well whatever they produce, in them. All they have are some flash animated schematics that sound a lot like existing technology.
They mainly seem to "make" lawsuits; another patent troll. It looks like they lost similar lawsuits here in the US. Some of these are filed in the hope that the company they are suing will settle for what is so nicely called the "nuisance value".
Their address points to a fairly small office building that I doubt could fit more than 50 cubicles in their half. Maybe they have a few engineers who do IC design, but they certainly don't seem to actually build anything.
It doesn't matter that they don't build anything - neither does Arm, neither does Synopsys, neither does Cadence. Developing better very specialised components, locking down the IP on them and then licensing them to everyone that needs those components for an annual price noticeably less than the total salary of the design team they'd have to hire to build better components is a perfectly reasonable place in the market for a company to be.
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nandnandnand - Wednesday, February 7, 2024 - link
Mindfactory stats 'bout to be lit.Samus - Wednesday, February 7, 2024 - link
So they lost their patent dispute in the United States, and are trying to go after them in the EU through a shell company? Wow. The irony of two US-based companies duking it out in German court over a US-based patent that isn't used in any R2 products sold in the EU (or anywhere on Earth) is a pretty desperate money grab.meacupla - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link
Who is "R2 Semiconductor"? I can't even find a wikipedia page about them.And they claim to have been around for 15 years?
I looked at their web page and they can't even show products with their... well whatever they produce, in them. All they have are some flash animated schematics that sound a lot like existing technology.
Samus - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link
They don't appear to actually make 'anything.'eastcoast_pete - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link
They mainly seem to "make" lawsuits; another patent troll.It looks like they lost similar lawsuits here in the US. Some of these are filed in the hope that the company they are suing will settle for what is so nicely called the "nuisance value".
zamroni - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link
Your search term was incomplete.Search for r2d2
GeoffreyA - Friday, February 9, 2024 - link
That's a good one!QChronoD - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link
Their address points to a fairly small office building that I doubt could fit more than 50 cubicles in their half. Maybe they have a few engineers who do IC design, but they certainly don't seem to actually build anything.QChronoD - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link
Looks like they do churn out lots of patents about voltage regulators and such, but I'm not going to take the time to decipher patent-speak engineering. https://patents.justia.com/search?q=%22R2+Semicond...TomWomack - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link
It doesn't matter that they don't build anything - neither does Arm, neither does Synopsys, neither does Cadence. Developing better very specialised components, locking down the IP on them and then licensing them to everyone that needs those components for an annual price noticeably less than the total salary of the design team they'd have to hire to build better components is a perfectly reasonable place in the market for a company to be.