Patriot and its partner TPL appear to be targeting equipment makers as a source of royalties and have claimed that products ranging from televisions, digital cameras and portable music players to servers, medical equipment and automotive electronics systems are all designed with multiple semiconductor devices that use MMP portfolio technologies.
Patriot and TPL came together in June 2005 to settle a longstanding patent dispute so they could jointly pursue licensing revenue from third parties. The TPL Group has been granted full responsibility and authority for the commercialization and licensing of a unified portfolio of 10 patents.
Prior to the Patriot-TPL agreement, Patriot had been prosecuting litigation against major Japanese systems companies for alleged patent infringement—including Sony—without success.
The MMP portfolio is named after inventor Charles H. Moore, chief technology officer of TPL Group, who is known for inventing the Forth software programming language and for his work in the 1980s on stack-based microprocessors.
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