RSSIntel Countersues Transmeta Over Patents
By the Betanews Staff | Published January 11, 2007, 2:38 PM
Intel struck back at Transmeta on Thursday, countersuing the company for patent infringement over methods to control power consumption in computer chips. The company sued the chipmaker in October over similar patents.
A total of 11 Transmeta patents were part of that suit filed in the U.S. District Court in Delaware, covering Intel's Pentium III, 4, M, Core, and Core 2 lines of processors. Intel failed to respond to that suit. Intel's suit covers seven of its own patents and was filed earlier this week in the same court. Transmeta would not comment on the suit, as it had not had a chance to look over Intel's charges.
Actually, the advantage of deeper pockets is that you do NOT need, nor necessarily want the case even heard sooner! That is the advantage deep pockets give you - the economic advantage to incur costs while your opposition is more dependent upon revenue!
The longer it drags on generating costs, the better it is for the deep pockets party.
Thus, if the case can be settled quickly, there is no real advantage to having the additional economic advantage - and any lawyer or party is then on a relatively equal footing.
Thus, I suspect the first thing Intel will do is move for an extended period of discovery.
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|Well, if this doesn't fall in favor of Intel within weeks, it will silence all the fluff about deeper pockets having the final say in court.
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|What comes around goes around...
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|Patents are truley in desparate need of reform, particularly with the Supreme Court overuling the court of appeals in this recent case a couple of days ago: http://www.quote.com/qc/...mp;symbols=INDUSTRY:907
(sorry I don't have the time at this moment to find a better link)
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