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  • meacupla - Wednesday, June 7, 2023 - link

    If you want more reason to hate mediatek, the first thing that shows up on their website is their CEO holding hands with Jensen Huang.
  • alphachannel - Wednesday, June 7, 2023 - link

    The claws come out
  • thestryker - Wednesday, June 7, 2023 - link

    I don't think I've ever seen a more on the nose name for a patent troll company than "IPValue". This has needed to be addressed for years, but continues to move unchecked because the US congress is worthless at getting anything important done.
  • PeachNCream - Wednesday, June 7, 2023 - link

    I've never been a huge Realtek fan except that I rather preferred them over idiotic solutions like Killer-branded crapware that Ian Cutress used to drumbeat without understanding even a little about how data packets traverse public networks (heard that guy is floundering around on YouTube these days attempting to live off Google advertiser breadcrumbs like literally everyone else that thought they didn't need actual employment). At any rate, Realtek NICs were a better solution than Killer junk until Intel bought the brand and even though its still snake oil, at least it's built around reliable underlying hardware these days. However, patent trolls are filthy trash so here's hoping Realtek can convince the courts to banhammer this mess.
  • buttress - Thursday, June 8, 2023 - link

    What? His "industry connections" aren't there to help him now like he was there to serve them then? Bummer..
  • eastcoast_pete - Sunday, June 18, 2023 - link

    The key point is not that a patent troll behaves or behaved like one, but that Mediatek essentially paid them to harass their competitors as part of a supposed license deal. The fact that this part of Mediatek's license deal was kept secret ("confidential") shows already that they had their own doubts whether this is legal. As others have posted here, I'm not a fan of Related either, but using a patent troll as a cudgel to clobber the competition needs to be called out and stopped. I hope that this will result in a judgement compelling Mediatek and the trolls to pay serious damages. Because losing a lot of $$$$ is the only language those people understand.

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