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Intergraph Injunction Against Intel Suspended For Now
Kilbasar writes "News.com is reporting that the Itanic has hit another iceberg, with a District Court granting an injunction stopping Intel from making the chip. However, the injunction was immediately suspended to allow for another round of appeals, and I don't really see anything coming of this other than Intel paying Intergraph anywhere from $100M to $250M to use their patents."
During this last year, there has been a large increase in the interest of companies and IP rights, but controversy is not really all that new.
The right for a citizen of this fine country to seek a patent comes from the Constitution. While it doesn't explicitly grant people the right to get patents, it does say that Congress may provide inventors with rights to their inventions.
But, they originally felt that there should be some group to actually grant/deny patents. So, a long time ago, Congress set up the first patent board, which consisted Tom Jefferson, Fort Knox, and Sir Edmund Randolph.
Even though that was about two-hundred years ago, the U.S. of A. has been granting and hearing gripes about patents ever since; after all, I should know -- I have three of them!
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada, B3H 3J5
I think slashdot has adopted a post-now/spell check later policy...:)
Fucking Christ, fungus.
First, the dollar sign goes BEFORE the amount. (Like this: $8.50)
Second, it's LOSE! LOSE LOSE LOSE!
Loose = the dog is running away!
Lose = I did not win this trial.
Posts like this makes me wish there was a [-1 Retard] moderation, although, I'm sure Offtopic will fit nicely, since I'm fairly certain that no one gives a damn about your investments.