Intellectual Property Law and Copyright Laws

Do you believe an oral agreement is always as good as a written one? It's a common misconception about contracts that can lead to significant problems, especially when valuable assets like intellectual property are involved. As the old saying goes, often attributed to Samuel Goldwyn but a truism in law, "An oral agreement is not worth the paper it's written on."

Imagine this. You were just served with a Complaint for patent infringement and learn that, some years ago, your competitor was granted a patent giving them a legal monopoly to exclude others, including you, from making, using, or selling a particular invention.

For decades, monolithic system-on-chip designs defined the semiconductor landscape. Introduced in the 1970s and refined over several generations, SoCs allowed designers to integrate processors, memory controllers, accelerators, and I/O onto a single die.