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Five PC Vendors Face Patent Lawsuit
Combuchan writes "This article from internetnews.com caught my attention: While Linux lawsuits gobble up the IT community's mindshare, a lesser-known legal action is being fought seeking billions of dollars from five PC vendors. Patriot Scientific, a small, San Diego-based seller of embedded microprocessors for automotive and scientific applications, is suing Sony, Fujitu, Matsushita, Toshiba, and NEC, alleging infringement of a Patriot patent for what it calls 'fundamental microprocessor technology.'"
Does any company actually have a business plan that isn't based around suing people any more?
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
Although Patriot has plans to move forward with its 32-bit processors and application-specific integrated circuits, Wallin said that product revenues were currently "negligible."
"Our main focus is the IP [intellectual property] business now," he said.
Gee, this really reminds me of someone... can't think of the name...
Intel should outsource their legal team to a foreign country. Just imagine a team of high priced lawyers with heavy accents all using the wookie defense! They'd unstoppable!
Interesting, all of the manufacturers "happened" to be major Japanese PC vendors, and they are sued by a company called "Patriot Scientific?" Is this some sort of retaliation acts for Pearl Harbor?
my 386 did this with the turbo button.
:)
maybe that particular patent has more specifics that make it unique, but come on, the idea is pretty old and it was lame then (for a desktop that is hehe. control the speed of dos games
smart. who's going to defend you on that murder rap then?
2 1337 4 u!
For sure. Time to give up a career as a programmer and go back to school & join the Dark Side (IP law) - if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
At least they won't ship *that* job ofshore too quickly.
Who's left to prosecute?
Please examine US Patent #4,791,886, titled "Manner in which to relieve the American Judicial System from pointless lawsuits 3B", written by me. Specifically, I refer you to page 1,136 of the document which sets out the detonation of a thermonuclear device as the best way to destroy the office. I would also point out that three of the words in sentence #11 in the second paragraph also end with the letter G, just like in your post.
This is a serious infringement of my patent. Hire yourself a good lawyer buddy cause you're gonna get it.
Am I the only one who heard Roxette to sing "I'm gonna get blitzed for some sex"?
You still have to be convicted by a jury of your peers. Who's not gonna consider it justifiable homicide?
"But I trust in the people's capacity for reflection, rage and rebellion." -Oscar Olivera
Method and apparatus for restraining an animal on a vehicle
I fail to see how that relates.
Justin Timberlake did. Duh.
My 10 year old son runs Linux and codes html in a text editor, and is learning C++. I am taking away his computer, buying him a weight set and teaching him how to beat up other kids for lunch money. Then he can go to law school and become an IP Attorney. I don't want my son to be trampled by the bullies and the Idiots. If you can't fight `em join `em
I can tell you how to fix the patent office, and it's actually pretty simple:
Hire me, and let me run it.
If a patent doesn't make me say, "Hey, that's pretty slick", then it's not patentable. That way, crap like one click buying, and moving the CPU timing don't get patents.
Thanks. I'll wait for my check now. =p
not loose, lose
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