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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. How is HP reliable? by garretwp · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How is HP reliable for the caching in the intel processors? Shouldnt that be an issue with Intel and not a company that builds computers?

  2. This is stupid by tod_miller · · Score: 0, Redundant

    CPU cacheing is no different that HDD mirrors of magnetic tape or even buffers on HDD.

    The whole storage tree goes from the very registers of the CPU to (usually) HDD via caches and lookup tables and stuff at each step.

    I am guessing a HDD cache implementation predates the patent by a way. Why not fight it?

    I suppose this is hardware we are talking about, but does seem stupid.

    But I suppose if someone from 120 years ago says, hey i have a valid patent on cars and engines! we will all say, what, that is rediculous! must be some prior art somewhere (and probably da vinci has some)

    Anyways, you know what I mean, what seems obvious now...

    Should big companies make it expensive for other companies to claim thier patent rights? fight in court? I say so, because small companies arent going to be having many patents...

    There is a danger of a large company stealing a small companies software idea though...

    mmm.

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  3. Re:Intergraph's Patents by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The problem I have is suing people that didn't *make* or *design* the part that infringes. Intel, AMD, IBM probably. HP, Gateway & Dell? I don't think so. Integrating a part into a larger system doesn't make that system an infringer, IMO