13: established product areas can have a minefield of IP such that the obvious combinations of features would be legally prohibited from being sold without unavailable license deals.
Do you have links to documented cases where products seem to be unavailable for these reasons?
specifically documented? No. I think some of the obvious examples are in things like batteries, materials science, and computer parts, where there are strong IP fights. Eg AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and ARM all license some but not all of their core tech to their rivals. I’m actually pretty confused about how they determine when to do this vs not, but would guess that this is at least somewhat inefficient by over optimizing on short term gains vs the more nebulous future payoffs of what would be enabled with more licenses.
Legal fight are the result of products that the market wants being made available even when it violates license rights. Companies then just pay the what the court tells them is a reasonable price for the patent violation.
It might be that in practice the friction makes certain products not available instead of just increasing their prices a bit, but I would want to hear from an industry insider that this is a significant problem to believe that.
Do you have links to documented cases where products seem to be unavailable for these reasons?
specifically documented? No. I think some of the obvious examples are in things like batteries, materials science, and computer parts, where there are strong IP fights. Eg AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and ARM all license some but not all of their core tech to their rivals. I’m actually pretty confused about how they determine when to do this vs not, but would guess that this is at least somewhat inefficient by over optimizing on short term gains vs the more nebulous future payoffs of what would be enabled with more licenses.
Legal fight are the result of products that the market wants being made available even when it violates license rights. Companies then just pay the what the court tells them is a reasonable price for the patent violation.
It might be that in practice the friction makes certain products not available instead of just increasing their prices a bit, but I would want to hear from an industry insider that this is a significant problem to believe that.