This is a very interesting article and in an area that I am also fascinated by. I believe that all parties could benefit by suitable levels of greater openness in many areas of IP. Suitable in the author's case might be use of the better chip sets with full information on their capabilities and integration in exchange for equity and other arrangements for the resulting innovations and products. Looks like a plausible win-win to me.

What makes little sense is completely hamstringing local underfunded innovators with IP while publishing the patents that tie their hands which are quite freely copied and used as product basis in some other countries.