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AMD, Intergraph Settle Patent Lawsuit

Posted by timothy on from the lawsuits-breed-lawyers dept.

CTho9305 writes "AMD and Intergraph settled a patent lawsuit over Intergraph's 'Clipper' patents. AMD has agreed to pay up to $25 million between now and 2007 to license the patents. Intel settled a lawsuit with Integraph over the 'Clipper' patents back in March."

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  1. AMD using monopoly power again!!! by bruthasj · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dammit! It seems like everything bad that happens to AMD, AMD turns around and uses it in their favor...

    I mean:
    - States sue AMD for abusing monopoly powers; AMD pays lawsuit with AMD products that indoctrinate kids (future buyers) into AMD products.

    - AMD sues Intel for it's impossible common word trademark of gigahertz in US courts. AMD loses. AMD sues Intel in other world courts; Intel is forced to change name. AMD loses, yet wins. Intel runs out of lawsuit money.

    - States sue AMD over alleged undocumented CPU instructions that allow AMD software to run better on Athlon than other software. Source code is released later on that shows AMD lied in court. Nothing happens to AMD!

    How is this new lawsuit good for anything but AMD? It's like AMD basically paid $25million to ensure that 3rd party software has a disadvantage - something AMD has already been sued for! This, once again, screws consumers by causing 3rd party manufacturers to pay more for licensing and allows AMD to eat another market.

    AMD is really clever at screwing us all in the ass as efficiently as possible.

    PS. If you don't get it, don't worry about modding this post.