Of course, their IP doesn&#x27;t have value because it&#x27;s particularly clever, it has value because it&#x27;s in a specification that people have to implement in order to inter-operate with everything else that&#x27;s based on the same specification. Their patent could be on a trivial tweak to something that&#x27;s unpatented with no benefit other than making them money in licensing fees, and as long as they can get their version into the standard...