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Dutch Firm Says Dell Motherboards Violate Its Patent
Call Me Black Cloud writes "This article (also here) briefly discusses a suit against Dell for royalties on US patent 5,594,621. This patent, titled "Motherboard for a computer of the AT type, and a computer of the AT type comprising such motherboard", concerns the layout of ISA and PCI cards on a motherboard. Tulip Computers International somehow managed to convince the USPTO that its arrangement of cards on a mobo was worthy of a patent. Fearing the orderly arrangement of my sock drawer was infringing on a patent, I was relieved to discover only a patent for a magnetic sock holder, which solves the "well known problem associated with everyday laundering...the disarray that can occur with paired items of clothing such as socks"
Dutch Firm Says Dell Motherboards Violate Its Patent
We'll ae least The Firm Dutch Are't Patently Violating Dell's Mother.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
is dell still selling AT computers ?
Nope. But they don't claim Dell's ATX computers infringe. They claim that has Dell's Optiplex PCs circa 1997 infringed. The suit was filed in 2000, and is just now going to trial.