I believe that partly means another computer manufacturer can come along and "borrow", proprietary chip designs, chip names, circuit board designs/architecture, etc. for use in their own machines without liability.
These modern "Amiga" incarnations only hold intellectual Amiga property more or less at this point. Branding, the Boing Ball trademark, but also the Kickstart, AmigaOS, Intuition, etc. Be nice if Amiga Inc. would do something meaningful - other than sell tip calculators of course ;-)
