Intergraph to sue PC makers over use of Pentium CPU's

[RanDum72]

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[Valinos]

Interesting...If Intel indeed infringed on this many of Intergraph's patents then they definitely deserve to have to pay up. However, it looks to me like another Rambus story. A half-assed wannabe tech company that failed to successfully market its technology and everyone else took over instead. Then Intergraph decided it wanted a piece of the pie, so it decides to sue everyone because it claims it owns all sorts of patents.

IMO, Intergraph should quit while its ahead.

 

[imgod2u]

Anyone actually have a link to what patents and technologies Intergraph actually claims it owns patents to? I know it's irrelevant what the enthusiastes think in this case but it'd be nice to have some more information other than PR spin to judge by.

 

[RanDum72]

However, it looks to me like another Rambus story. A half-assed wannabe tech company that failed to successfully market its technology and everyone else took over instead

Exactly what I was thinking....

 

[tenoc]

If I read that correctly, a company that wasn't even making their own chips at the time
and was actually buying and using Intel chips in their own systems, is going to sue
everyone else who used Intel chips.

Wow, only in America! Lots of money for lawyers!

 

[tenoc]

Oh, wait.

Everyone except IBM, because they're bum-buddies with them.

lol

 

[DaveSimmons]

The original filing (against intel's infringement) was in 1997, and the patents being violated were not stealth patents for an industry standard, so integraph is not acting like Rambus. They're not any worse than intel and AMD who've both patented and licensed parts of their own processor, bus and memory controller designs.

Intel thought they could get away with infringing, and Dell and co. decided they didn't care whether they were using tech that infringed. Too bad for them. Intel already has been determined to be guilty enough for IP theft with itanium to owe 150 million so you shouldn't feel any sympathy for them or companies that knowingly resold their stolen IP.

And if Dell & co. had sold AMD instead they'd be OK 😉

 

[Mday]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
The original filing (against intel's infringement) was in 1997, and the patents being violated were not stealth patents for an industry standard, so integraph is not acting like Rambus. They're not any worse than intel and AMD who've both patented and licensed parts of their own processor, bus and memory controller designs.

Intel thought they could get away with infringing, and Dell and co. decided they didn't care whether they were using tech that infringed. Too bad for them. Intel already has been determined to be guilty enough for IP theft with itanium to owe 150 million so you shouldn't feel any sympathy for them or companies that knowingly resold their stolen IP.

And if Dell & co. had sold AMD instead they'd be OK 😉

really? what if licenses AMD used from intel infringed on the intergraph patents too?

 

[glugglug]

As you can see in this article, THE WHEEL was patented by John Keogh in May 2001.

Your hard disk, CD-ROM, and cooling fans would not operate properly without this technology.
Wonder when he will sue...

 

[Adul]

hehe I knew I should have posted this in GH and not Off topic ;p