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Patent outfit Rambus does not seem to think it has enough patents to scare the bejesus out of the IT industry.
After nearly everyone in the industry has had to pay something to the outfit to make its team of m'learned friends go away, it seems that Rambus has decided to splash out on some more patents.
After all, if you don't have patents, you don't have anything to get cash for. Who knows, you might even have to do something drastic like invent something and add to the collective knowledge of humanity.
Rambus has managed to buy up a lighting and display portfolio of patents and technology from privately held Imagine Designs. These cover technology for general lighting, LCD backlighting, and microelectromechanical system (MEMS) displays.
Imagine Designs' founder and principal inventor Brian Richardson will join Rambus as a technical director in the Lighting and Display Technology business.
Jeff Parker, who is called the president of Lighting and Display Technology at Rambus which we guess might be a new post, said that this patent complements Rambus's portfolio of leading-edge technology.
He said that this will allow Rambus to provide "a wider range of solutions to our customers for their next-generation LED based lighting and display products." Not that Rambus makes any "solutions". What it does is flogs bits of paper that allows others to make things. This is a lot cheaper.
We guess that there will be a large number of telly and other display makers who are awaiting a letter from Rambus's lawyers.
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That has to be the dumbest sentence I have ever read in an article that is supposed to be about intellectual property. Isn't a patent by definition an invention? Isn't a patent an addition to collective knowledge? Have you ever received a patent or added to collective knowledge or are the words you write just dumb?
A patent is an exchange: you disclose how to make something, you get a government-sponsored temporary monopoly on selling that something. To my mind, it isn't there so you can "invent" a bunch of stuff that you never intend to produce to play whack-a-mole with companies that actually bother to try to make something. This is what it appears Rambus is doing.
oddly enough, you have actually negatively affected the collective knowledge of humanity by writing this nonsense. You're timing questioning the value of patents and ideas is also suspect, as many technology firms (Google, Apple, RIM etc.) have been on an intellectual property spending spree.
I will use your exact words from this article, of course with no credit to you, in my book "Trolls". As a matter of fact that young ex-hooters female journalist that works with you, has some great material as well that I will plaugerize. So far, my book has made me near a million buckaroos! Thanks for your ideas and writings, saved me a ton of real work, kudos to both of you. Keep up the good work, your journalism skills are paying off for this guy.
Do you get it now moron or do you want me to S P E L L it out for you? You are nothing more than a paid schill, put your resume in at Bloomberg, maybe you'll get a "Real" job, Ha Ha HA