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Intel Sued for Patent Infringement
mfh writes "All Computers Inc. has filed suit against Intel for infringing on US Patent (5,506,981). Apparently Intel utilized patent-conflicting circuitry to determine the frequency of the input signal to the microprocessor, including Pentium processors. All Computers is asking for the tidy sum of $500 million USD."
What are you trying to say? I didn't get it.
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At least this sort of thing can't happen in Europe. Oh wait....
Step 1: Patent generic idea
Step 2: Wait a few years for people to adopt it
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit!!
I'm waiting to sue for my patent "eating food whilst surfing the internet". I'm gonna be rich beyond my wildest dreams!
are you sick of irony too?
Yeah, there are too many illegal sections on /. =)
- "My name is Legion, for we are many" -Mark 5:9
I'm sorry, but this REALLY needs to be done. Moderators, please activate your social justice circuitry before modding this.
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, America fucks YOU!
Yakov Smirnov is a genius. I love this country! Thank you.
>And people will wonder why the US falls behind in tech.
/picz
But your lawyers are getting better and better every day.
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All Computers Inc. has filed suit against Intel for infringing on US Patent (5,506,981).
Okay, this is the one and possibly only story where this has been oh so appropriate...
All your Computers are belong to us!
Well, I believe he's got "soap" covered. And ballot, for all you know. Maybe you should choose your quotes more carefully.
-Rob Ewaschuk
It seems it would be pretty difficult to buy pants big enough to hold their gigantic balls. But seriously, it takes guts for a little company to go after such a huge one as Intel. If Intel is found to have violated the patent, then by all means they should pay All Computers. But Intel could have just as easily reverse engineered it, and used the exact same layout by chance. Any lawyers that could clarify this? If it is still infringement if someone reverse engineers it and comes up with a similar or an exact copy of a patent?
I hate sigs.
It becomes increasingly apparent to me that first contact will go something likes this:
"Welcome to Earth"
"Nice one. Thanks, really." [Whispers to adjacent green blob, "OK, stand down the megadeath lasers"].
"So, what can we people of America.. whoops, 'Earth' do for you?" [90% of the human race watching the historical event squirms with disgust]
"Well, it appears that you chaps have been exploiting the process known to you as 'respiration'. I'm afraid we patented this approximately 7 billion years ago. You owe us a rather inconveniently large stack of cash... in fact your mathematics aren't sufficiently advanced to describe it. Oh, and in fact we need a word with SCO too..."