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HP Pays Intergraph $141m to Settle Patent Dispute

Posted by samzenpus on from the money-fixes-everything dept.

foxed writes "HP has settled a patent dispute with Intergraph. Intergraph claim the caching in Intel's Pentium processors violates their patent. Intel, AMD, Dell and Gateway made similar settlements last year."

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  1. Re:Intergraph's Patents by gowen · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Having now read them, albeit briefly, I *think* that Intergraph's novel idea is a neat way of merging the onboard cache and the MMU.

    Hate to rush against the tide, but that's a really great idea, that no-one prior to Intergraph had managed to come up with. It's also an actual invention, rather than just an algorithm, or an algorithmic expression of well-known mathematics.

    I can't see any great problem with these patents, and welcome our new cache-management overlords.

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  2. Intergraph IP if anyone is interested by billwie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Intergraph Patents all relate from their own custom unix architecture that they abandoned in the early 90s (suckered into windows/intel). Their first cases involved their claim that Intel was trying to strong arm them to get their IP... and I thought their claim was very valid. Unfortunately now they seem to have made a business unit that's sole purpose is to chase suspected patent violators. Some of their other products are quite useful (mapping and GIS) though, if overpriced and underhyped.

    check out http://www.intergraph.com/ip/cases.aspfor more info on the cases

    and

    http://www.intergraph.com/ip/tech.asp for info on how a software company ended up with all these hardware patents in the first place.