

clean-room recreation, […] It is meant to act as a defense against copyright claims because it shows nothing was copied.
Patents work differently than copyrights. But that’s the basics. Didn’t that guy know even the basics?
Synaptics took about three weeks to answer his request for specifics,
Also, the attitude of “you didn’t tell it all with spoon feeding details, so I’m just going to ignore you” doesn’t work.
In theory, they would not even need to tell the specific details in advance about which part of the work violates which patent. they could wait until the court case with revealing this. Patents are public. Everybody can read them and know what it is what he cannot do without asking the patent owner.
An appendix listed over 125 patents without saying which
On the other hand, the whole patent system is rotten and nearly unusable with the huge numbers of teeny tiny patents nowadays, where most of them should never have been granted at all.
They gave him more specifics and now he’s whining because they took 3 weeks for that. Hmmm.