Comments by "Ray Lopez" (@raylopez99) on "TSMC's Renegade Genius" video.

  1.  @eyeborg3148  True, one reason why innovation sucks for the inventor, financially. The founder of modern DNA recombinant methods, how DNA is amplified, Nobel Prize winner Carry Mullis, got $10k for this multi-billion dollar invention. He said he made more money as a patent expert in patent litigation than from the actual invention.
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  2. This is great, all very well and good, but if IBM got patents on copper interconnect in the late 1990s you can bet they negotiated a license with TSMC to avoid a patent infringement lawsuit against TSMC. A brief search found no patent lawsuit against TSMC except by GlobalFoundries (one of their patents mentioned copper interconnect) in 2019, but I bet IBM did get some licensing agreement from TSMC.
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  3.  @andersjjensen  LOL thanks for the laughs. You can patent anything, even a math formulae (with hardware) and a method patent covers steps. BTW IBM gets like $2B a year (last I checked, like 10 years ago) from patent license fees. You don't think they approached TSMC? I doubt they haven't. Bye.
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  4. Correction: with TSMC, meaning TSMC probably, I guess, is paying IBM something to avoid infringing their copper interconnect patents.
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