I'm sure many on this HUB are not happy with you being so honest.

But you didn't mention that we have about 4 years until this whole patent gold mine starts looking a lot more like iron pyrite. Sure, they will still be able to go after infringers that were notified before expiration, but how much more/less succesful are they likely be after expiration? (See extracts from PTSC's web site below.)

It would be interesting to hear what "convereting portfolio value into maximum cash return for its owner" means. It may be our only hope.

Founded in 1988, Silicon Valley-based TPL has a solid track record in delivering a complete suite of intellectual property management services. In addition to optimizing IP portfolio value and protecting assets from infringement, the company is also well versed in converting portfolio value into a maximum cash return for its owner(s). Through Alliacense, the TPL Group manages IP-licensing programs across a broad array of industries.

Patriot Scientific and TPL believe at least three of the 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

Both Patriot Scientific and The TPL Group assert that these patents, which were granted in 1998 and which are valid through 2015, have long been essential to the design of modern high-speed microprocessors. These allied firms are currently having tremendous success maximizing the value of this patent portfolio.