IBM sued over heat sink

31 Jan 2008 | 18:19 GMT

By INQUIRER staff

Emission statement

A TAIWANESE firm filed a suit against Big Glue, alleging that IBM infringed its patent on a “heat dissipating device”.

CPU Mate alleged in a Texas district court that IBM uses patented technology in its Eserver Xseries 2 servers.

The patent in question is 7,021,368 – wittily called Heat Dissipating Device With Uniform Heat Points, which was filed on April 4^th 2006.

And so it goes. µ