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HP Pays Intergraph $141m to Settle Patent Dispute

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 27, 2005 @01:00AM 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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Re:Intergraph's Patents by Jeff+DeMaagd · 2005-01-27 02:14 · 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