You have to wonder if this part was approved by a qualified lawyer at all. A trade secret would describe proprietary knowledge of how to implement the technology, but would have no protection under patent law.

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saghm 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They also repeatedly claimed "DisplayLink is not a member of OIN" when it actually is, and later when they acquiesced to the cease and desist, one of the actual engineers from the company tried to review the PR to ask for changes. It's not clear anyone there has any clue what's going on!

	▲	interestica 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You're saying I can't use a shell company acquisition as a means to shield certain technologies from my other agreements? Booo

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kube-system 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I suspect they know that, but it reads as if they were just lazily tacking that claim on for effect. This isn't a petition to a court, this is just a demand letter. Listing out a bunch of scary damages is how demand letters often work. They don't have to go into details as to the basis of their legal claims.

	▲	kevin_thibedeau 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		This demand letter may become evidence in a future case and judges don't look kindly upon lies and deception.