"Amiga" patents - what are they?

[asymetrix]

See thread title.

I'm thinking about the original Amiga patents and/or intellectual property coming from the original Commodore bankruptcy...

What exact areas does the patents cover? Anybody know? I tried googling but nowhere did I find anything useful - apart from some DMA patent from the late 80s.

This is purely out of curiosity - since everytime the Amiga intellectual property/patents have switched hands they have been "spoken highly" of.

I thought Gateway (now bankrupt) owned the Amiga patents, and Amiga has a lifetime, exclusive ? licence to use it.

[asymetrix]

@asymetrix

Gateway aren't bankrupt.  They just don't own Amiga, Inc anymore.

wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway,_Inc.

On October 16, 2007 the acquisition by Acer became final and Gateway became a privately held company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Acer. The board of directors resigned and a new board was appointed.

They dont OWN Amiga Inc, but STILL OWN Amiga patents, or is it ACER ?
Gateway never SOLD the Amiga patents to Amiga Inc, they allowed Amiga Inc to use them.

executive update, Jan 3, 2000
http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/jan3rd2000.html

Here is what was acquired from Gateway:

1. All trademarks logo's etc.
2. All existing inventory of Amiga International
3. All existing licenses.
4. License to All Amiga patents (Gateway still owns the patents, but we are able to use them).
5. All web sites, and registered domain names.
6. The Amiga OS and all that is associated with the OS.
7. The Amiga operation as it exists today.