🚀 go-pugleaf

I am not an attorney, and am not attempting to argue for or against the
patents in question or the tactics being used. But I am reminded of
when I first learned of Olaf Soderblom's efforts to collect royalty
fees for systems incorporating technology he claimed was in a patent issued
many years ago.

1. Everyone couldn't believe this could happen. After all, the technology
was already part of an IEEE standard, and he was demanding royalties!

2.  He did NOT attempt to collect fees from the IC vendors that built
silicon according to the IBM/802.5 spec; he went after all companies
that built boards and/or systems that included said chips. (Does this
sound familiar now?)

Now, several years after pursuing the above strategy, virtually all of
the vendors of Token-Ring technology have signed some form of license
agreement with him. Details (unfortunately) aren't disclosed about
individual fee structures, etc.