Is DisplayLink a company owned by Synaptics or just a file in a portfolio? How do they make money from DisplayLink except from selling the docks? Licensing?
"Your actions are potentially putting tens of millions of
dollars of yearly corporate revenue at risk."<p><a href="https://static.lwn.net/images/pdf/Cease_and_Desist_Notice_Mike_Lothian_10-05-2026.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://static.lwn.net/images/pdf/Cease_and_Desist_Notice_Mi...</a><p>Fuck you, Synaptics.
> <i>Fuck</i> you, Synaptics.<p>Which is made funnier by the lawyer's name being <i>Bateman</i>. Sorry, could not resist that one.<p>What I find more ridiculous is the timing:<p>> You are to provide Synaptics, no later than 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on October 11, 2026<p>The letter is dated "October 5, 2026". WTF are these lawyers smoking that they think 5 days is any reasonable time frame.
I predict a high chance that they lose this patent. Mark my words.<p><a href="https://lkml.rescloud.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2610.1/14966.html" rel="nofollow">https://lkml.rescloud.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2610.1/1...</a><p>According to patent prosecution records, the independent claims for GB2484736 originally lacked any network transport limitations and were deemed entirely unpatentable against the prior art listed above.<p>To get the patent granted, DisplayLink’s attorneys amended the claims to specifically add delivery of the display data over a "general-purpose data network." The validity challenge relies on proving that adding a general-purpose transport layer (like USB or Ethernet) to existing image-compression methodologies was an obvious step and completely unoriginal in 2010, given the widespread existence of USB monitors and network-attached graphics at the time.
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