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SGI Sues ATI for Patent Infringement

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the mommy-they're-playing-unfair dept.

Ynsats writes "The Register is reporting that SGI is filing suit against ATI for patent infringement. The suit alleges that ATI violated patent number 6,650,327, "Display system having floating point rasterization and floating point framebuffering", which was filed in 1998 and granted in 2003, in its Radeon graphics cards. This is coming fast on the heels of AMD's announcement of the intention to buy ATI for $4.2B and it doesn't seem to be swaying AMD's intentions. AMD hopes to finish the takeover by the end of this year. SGI has also issued an ominous statement stating that they have plenty of intellectual property left and there will be more litigation to come."

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  1. Re:Reminds me of another three letter 'S' company by tomstdenis · · Score: 2, Funny

    ATI deserves to be sued. Their Linux support is horrible. :-)

    And AMD still owes me a grand from my Linux World expenses... cheap bastards the lot of them!

    Tom

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  2. Zombie companies by aero6dof · · Score: 5, Funny

    SGI is back from the dead and is now trying to feast on living companies. If that doesn't fit the halloween season I don't know what does.

  3. Re:Let me be the first... by gr8whitesavage · · Score: 3, Funny

    to welcome our new rasterization and floating point framebuffering overlords!

    You guys are really falling out of practice here.

  4. Re:Reminds me of another three letter 'S' company by Zordak · · Score: 2, Funny
    If my neighbor has been letting his dog dump on my front lawn for years, does that mean that I lose my right to ask him to pick it up or take the dog elsewhere? I don't think so.

    Well, actually, if you let his dog dump on your lawn long enough, it's possible that your neighbor has established an easement for his dog dumping on your lawn by virtue of adverse possession. At that point, your neighbor would have an established property interest in your lawn that gives him the right to let his dog poop on it. If you have a right, you're always better off asserting it sooner rather than later.

    But your point is otherwise valid. In this case, they appear to be well within the statute of limitations for patent infringement, so the suit is proper.

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  5. Re:Reminds me of another three letter 'S' company by Some_Llama · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Well, actually, if you let his dog dump on your lawn long enough, it's possible that your neighbor has established an easement for his dog dumping on your lawn by virtue of adverse possession."

    What about a neighboor's cat? I have a number of neighboors who have no qualms with letting their cats be "outdoor" cats, which means they come and poop on my lawn, since they usually do this at night I don't know about it till I get a whiff of cat poop in the morning when I open my windows...

    Would it be wrong to shoot the cats with a paintball gun if I see them pooping on my lawn years later when i finally catch one of them?

    *desks himself in camo, loads paintballs and waits...*