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Old 10th May 2018, 2:11 pm   #21
Craig Sawyers
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Good grief - 500 patents! The first task would be to go through every one and work out whether it was essential to the business. I've done exactly that exercise several times as a consultant. Typically you can reduce the number of patents by a factor of 10 without compromising the business.

The kind of companies that can fund a patent portfolio of that size are typically pharaceuticals, consumer electronics giants (Apple for example), and aerospace (Rolls Royce etc). But niche audio? No chance - it is little wonder they went belly up.
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Old 11th May 2018, 12:37 pm   #22
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I was down at nxt a couple of times, but, thinking back, it must be 20 years ago now. From what I remember the work originated at Mission, and they spun them out as a separate company. I'm not surprised they ended up with a lot of patents. The business model seemed to be to patent things which in some peoples' minds might seem obvious - vibrating things stuck on panels free to vibrate, will radiate sound - and to license this knowledge to other people who would manufacture. I wondered if they would be able to protect the 'IP'...it seems not. I still think the singing ceiling tile has a market in shopping centres and department stores - or, given the death of retail, perhaps airports!
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