You may not have noticed, but I have until now stayed out of the recent discussion about ARM and the '584. I've read that the removal of ARM is good for ARM, or that it is good for our team.

Here's the bottom line IMO. ARM entered the fray to supposedly protect their many customers (who were screaming). Did they succeed?

It appears to me that they MAY have on the '584. At minimum, they postponed any bad things from happening to THEM.

But what about the other patents in the portfolio? You know, the patents they reference in their own patent applications. They did not even engage on those patents.

So the question becomes "are their customers still screaming?". IMO, probably. So was ARM successful?

Now take a step back and look at this. We didn't invite ARM to the litigation. Why not? IMO, because we want to go after each and every one of their customers WITHOUT any worries about the "flow down" of infringement (i.e., the thing where you can't sue everyone in a supply/delivery chain for infringement because at some point in the chain, liability stops).

So, again, "are their customers still screaming?".

IMO, ARM did gain a little from OUR perspective. From their perspective, they gained alot, as they temporarily "won" on the one item they chose to dispute (which IMO will probably stand). From their customers' perspective? Did they really gain anything? Maybe, but probably not. They are still suseptable to being sued. You can bet they are watching as close as we are in our fight with the Js.

So the '584 has dropped out of the picture, perhaps permanently. But as I have said all along, it only takes one of the other six patents to hold water for us to be successful.

All JMHO, FWIW.

SGE