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Intel Sued for Patent Infringement

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the familiar-sounding-ideas dept.

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."

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  1. This is interesting because... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    What's better,

    a) Slashdork story about patent infringement
    b) Sex with a mare

    ?

  2. Patents are bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Patents are evil. They are against my communist/christian/leftist sway and only serve the greedy.

    I do like my "greedy capitalist" funded affluent lifestyle however and thus must reconcile my zealous lunacy due to the fact that funding of innovation is in fact promoted by patent protection.