Intel sues laser firm Intellite over name

Intellite is an optics company and its president, Dennis Mansell, said today that his company is being "threatened by toxic legal vapors wafting across the Rio Grande".

The fight has been going on for some time, and Mansell told the INQUIRER today it was continuing, but he is at the end of his tether. Negotiations have ended with a law suit being launched by Chipzilla.

He said his firm had received several letters from Intel and its learned friends wanting it to change its name or face a long legal battle.

He said his firm "feels like an ant stuck in the tar ahead of a huge paving machine. We have little way to turn".

Intellite said it makes a membrane deformable mirror for electroptic devices, used in supermarket scanners, cruise missiles and high energy lasers.

The original name of the firm, he said, was Intelligent Light Solutions. The 10 man firm could be crippled by the action.

Mansell said the attack by Intel represents one of many Chipzilla has instituted over the last few years.

He said his own firm was sponsored by the US government for its start up.

Intel, he said, "represents a new found example of corporare excess that is reminiscent of monopolies in the late 1800s".

The most high profile case recently was that of Yoga Inside, which Intel sued over the "inside" word, prompting Breakthrough Publishing Limited to set up a web site called inquirerinside. µ

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