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Pretty strange world where losing 300mil to this lot is a net win to maintain the hostile patent environment against their competitors.

I guess it’s pretty similar to Apple acquiring the patents and then suing competitors.. but without all the ill will that directly suing companies off a weak base brings. Bit sad that it all rationally makes sense.

> S3 directly lifted Apple patented QuickTime Road Pizza technique of encoding 4 colors using 2 values (same math, same values, same purpose, no prior art acknowledgment), to ~10 years later sue and win.

This seems like the type of thing that an amicus brief could point out regardless of Apple's strategy in the case. Did that not happen?

>>They pretty much intentionally lost S3TC patent case opting not to push for patent invalidation

Do you have any inside knowledge or just guessing the strategy of the lawyers in the courtroom?

They didnt even try to file a case with USPTO's Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Their iPhone "strategy" was avoiding the matter altogether, stripping S3TC assets and support from the software (still in the SoC).