{"id":13411,"date":"2024-11-19T18:35:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T18:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=13411"},"modified":"2024-11-19T18:35:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T18:35:48","slug":"xockets-board-member-our-case-against-nvidia-and-microsoft-is-about-the-future-of-american-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=13411","title":{"rendered":"Xockets board member: Our case against Nvidia and Microsoft is about the future of American innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Capital and labor are the blood and body of the U.S. economy, and their value rests substantially on continuing innovation. Since the 1950s, economists have measured the impact of innovations and other factors on gains in U.S. growth and productivity. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercatus.org\/economic-insights\/expert-commentary\/how-technology-affects-economic-growth\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-93594058-0 fowfrQ  \" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/www.mercatus.org\/economic-insights\/expert-commentary\/how-technology-affects-economic-growth\" rel=\"noopener\">recent analysis<\/a> found that one to two-thirds of those gains can be properly attributed to innovations, a far larger share than from increases in the capital stock and improvements in the skills and education of workers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Today, however, the nation\u2019s economic progress is at risk. Giant corporations that dominate their respective markets have come up with ways to appropriate valuable innovations created by startups and small companies. This new process of capturing the innovations of others erodes the incentives for creative, entrepreneurial people to figure out how to turn their new ideas into new products and technologies\u2014and degrades the economic conditions and ecosystem that support and promote innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Innovation doesn\u2019t happen by chance.\u00a0It requires sustained investments in research and development and a political and economic environment that supports startups and new investments. It also requires strict legal protection and enforcement of the property rights to the innovation.<\/p>\n<p>That protection is so important to the country\u2019s long-term progress that it\u2019s in the Constitution: Article 1, Section 8, grants Congress the specific authority to \u201cpromote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, Congress has enacted patent laws to secure the innovator\u2019s exclusive right from infringement and, if she chooses, to sell or license that right to others in return for a share of the economic benefits arising from the innovation.<\/p>\n<p>For the past generation, innovative telecommunications and information technologies have transformed virtually all U.S. industries. At the same time, the process of developing new technologies and other products has changed as the tech industry has become highly concentrated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/nvidia\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-93594058-0 fowfrQ  \" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/nvidia\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Nvidia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/apple\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-93594058-0 fowfrQ  \" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/apple\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/microsoft\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-93594058-0 fowfrQ  \" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/microsoft\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/alphabet\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-93594058-0 fowfrQ  \" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/alphabet\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Alphabet<\/a> are the four largest companies in the economy, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/research\/largest-companies-by-market-cap\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-93594058-0 fowfrQ  \" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/www.fool.com\/research\/largest-companies-by-market-cap\/\" rel=\"noopener\">combined market cap<\/a> of more than $12 trillion\u2014or the equivalent of 44% of GDP last year. Managing their enormous operations and markets demands most of their resources and attention. However, to maintain and increase their enormous value, giant companies have to continue to innovate. In response, their recent innovations have largely been conceived and initially developed by startups and young companies that patent the new ideas and then seek to sell them or themselves and their exclusive rights to large companies.<\/p>\n<p>This process of innovation creation and development can be very efficient. The innovators focus on the risky process of developing something new on a small scale in hopes of very large rewards for selling their ideas to large companies that can bear the costs to finish the development and produce the new technology at scale. This system rests ultimately on protecting the small innovator\u2019s intellectual property rights, since without those rights, there are no rewards.<\/p>\n<p>What happens when a large company that depends on innovating but does little of it itself ignores the actual innovator\u2019s rights? The innovator can sue, but that entails a very protracted and expensive legal process that pits a small startup or young company against a behemoth corporation that often dominates the marketplace. It\u2019s David versus Goliath, and Goliath has the weapons to overwhelm David.<\/p>\n<p>Legal and economic observers of this severe imbalance have identified the increasing use of what\u2019s known as <a href=\"https:\/\/laweconcenter.org\/resources\/efficient-infringement-in-the-sep-space\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-93594058-0 fowfrQ  \" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/laweconcenter.org\/resources\/efficient-infringement-in-the-sep-space\/\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cefficient infringement.\u201d<\/a> That\u2019s what happens when giant S&amp;P 500 companies deliberately infringe on the patents of small innovators by appropriating their innovative ideas without notice or payment. It\u2019s called \u201cefficient\u201d infringement because the big infringer has calculated that it costs less to wear down an innovator by exhausting its resources and patience in a protracted legal struggle than to license or purchase the patents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Efficient infringers also know that the law and many of the courts that adjudicate these disputes have shifted in ways that strongly favor Goliath. A small innovator\u2019s most powerful recourse to protect its patent rights is an injunction to enjoin alleged infringers from using the patents while the dispute is adjudicated. In recent years, however, such injunctions have become rare. Without the existential threat of an injunction to protect the small innovator\u2019s exclusive property rights, the Goliath companies are in practice incentivized to ignore them.<\/p>\n<p>And even when a large corporate infringer loses the disputes, other changes in the rules that used to govern these cases have led to damage awards much smaller than the actual economic losses suffered by the innovator, much less a fair share of the actual economic benefits achieved by the infringer.<\/p>\n<p>A high-profile case filed recently that involves one of the foundational technologies for artificial intelligence could illustrate these corrosive dynamics for everyone to consider. It involves a startup of which I am a board member, called Xockets, that more than a decade ago developed and patented the basic DPU chip that enables big data AI operations. Xockets is now suing Nvidia, the world\u2019s largest maker of DPU chips, and its customer Microsoft, for infringing our patents on the very technology that has powered Nvidia\u2019s meteoric rise to become the world\u2019s largest company, worth over $3.4 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>Xockets\u2019s case is that Nvidia and Microsoft are committing efficient infringement by appropriating the small innovator\u2019s patent-protected DPU chip and then joining together in boycotting Xockets\u2019s efforts to sell or license its exclusive rights for a fair price. Most notably here, David has pulled together the resources to take on this Goliath, and the court is considering enjoining Nvidia from using the DPU chip in question. The case could become an object lesson for giant companies that consider taking advantage of small companies that create brilliant breakthroughs. (Nvidia and Microsoft did not respond to a request to make a statement about the points raised in this article. Microsoft has argued in court that our claim does not meet the threshold for an injunction.)<\/p>\n<p>The outcome of our case could be a sobering lesson for young technologists. Going forward, the ownership of their breakthrough innovations could depend on whether the world\u2019s largest and richest companies, intent on becoming yet larger and richer, will deign to recognize the property rights of innovators and pay to use their breakthroughs. If that\u2019s the outcome, economic logic teaches that there will be fewer breakthroughs in the future and fewer investors willing to invest in innovations\u2014and the productivity gains and income progress of most Americans will continue to suffer.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-a9c15eee-292b-44aa-9217-08f3279fafcf\">More must-read\u00a0commentary\u00a0published by\u00a0<em>Fortune<\/em>:<\/h2>\n<p><em>The opinions expressed in Fortune.com commentary pieces are solely the views of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions and beliefs of\u00a0<\/em>Fortune<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-cy=\"subscriptionPlea\"><b>How many degrees of separation are you from the globe&#8217;s most powerful business leaders? <\/b>Explore who made our brand-new list of the <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/ranking\/most-powerful-people\/?&amp;itm_source=fortune&amp;itm_medium=article_tout\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sc-93594058-0 fowfrQ  \" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/fortune.com\/ranking\/most-powerful-people\/?&amp;itm_source=fortune&amp;itm_medium=article_tout\" rel=\"noopener\">100 Most Powerful People in Business<\/a>. Plus, learn about the metrics we used to make it.<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capital and labor are the blood and body of the U.S. economy, and their value rests substantially on continuing innovation. Since the 1950s, economists have measured the impact of innovations and other factors on gains in U.S. growth and productivity. 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