When I search on the U.S. patent office database for patents assigned to Opel or U Conn or Geoff Taylor, only one patent (6,031,234) has Dr. Taylor listed as Assignee. A few say U Conn. The rest list both U Conn and Opel as assignees. Now, Dr. Taylor is the "Inventor" on all of them, but in general is not the "Assignee". It is the assignee who has property rights on a patent. Since POET was OPEL, they are now assignees to this patent portfolio. If this is right it doesn't make sense that POET licenses the IP portfolio since they own it.

Thoughts? I would think Synopsis would need to license it to create the design kits. Or perhaps they meant license from U Conn to get total control.

rogue