More than just a modem man

摘要

Maybe Brent 'Townshend would have wound up in court no matter what he invented. Since creating 56K bit/sec modem technology in the mid-1990s, the California engineer has spent a lot of time suing companies that don't license it upfront and has amassed a fortune in the process. Although he had been out of the spotlight in recent years, Townshend reached an out-of-court settlement in December with Analog Devices over alleged misuse of his technology and has a court data in July with Cisco, Intel and others.