Roger Cook, a senior patent litigator with the highly regarded law firm of Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, has been instrumental in licensing the portfolio to one of the world's pre-eminent microprocessor manufacturers. Cook said, "This portfolio appears to be a patent litigator's dream."
TPL and Patriot believe at least three of the ten patents are elemental to virtually every microprocessor design. The three most significant of these patents are as follows:
U.S. 5,809,336: Clocking CPU and I/O Separately
U.S. 6,598,148: Use of Multiple Cores and Embedded Memory
U.S. 5,784,584: Multiple Instruction Fetch http://www.ipfrontline.com/depts/article.asp?id=4010&deptid=7
