Adobe, Alienware, Appro, world+dog, Wal*Mart get Intel, AMD subpoenas

WHILE WE were away covering Computex, the legal wheels continued to grind in AMD's antitrust case against Intel.

Unlike millers, the lawyers are probably threshing a fair old profit out of these legal shenanigans.

A group of publishers, concerned about the implications of documents being held in camera, decided to file a letter to the special judge attempting to arbitrate the comings and goings related to "confidential" matters, non disclosure agreements, and the like. The world+vendor dog in this case do not wish all the documents to be made available to the plebs.

The New York Times, the LA Times, Associated Press, Bloomberg and others all got a lawyer to drop a line to the long suffering Joseph Farnan and the soon-to-be-very long suffering "special master" Vincent Poppiti to take account of the case, citing a previous case against Procter & Gamble that indicated the people had a right to know.

See the PDF here.

Meanwhile, and in the last week, a flurry of subpoenas were issued by both Intel and AMD requesting certain information from the vendors.

For example, AMD subpoenad LG Electronics and Wal-Mart to provide information on prices, internal performance comparisons. It has other subpoenas which have yet to be issued.

That was upped by Intel, which submitted a whole blizzard of subpoenas to a whole bevy of vendors, including Adobe, Alienware, Asus and Appro and from there through to the end of the alphabet. These subpoenas mirrored AMD's early subpoenas in the case, and requested the vendors and distributors to supply information on conversations they'd had with the lesser Zilla about prices, about discounts and the whole shooting match.

Meanwhile, lawyers for other vendors, such as NEC and Dell, put their oar in to be included in any discussions on any matters that might interest them in the continuing discovery menagerie. The pile of papers is probably already high enough that you'd get altitude sickness if you mounted them all up on top of each other and climbed on top of them. Anyone got a ladder? µ

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