Intel, Intergraph headed for Patent Place again

The Huntsville Times, quoting chief Intel corporate spinner Chuck Mulloy, said that his firm had found easy to appeal and is confident that it's justified in doing so.

The appeal is over a federal court ruling in October 2002 that Intel used Intergraph technology in its Itanium microprocessor. Intergraph has licensed its tech to Texas Instruments and to Fujitsu.

Intel has a temporary licence after stumping up $150 million, but if it loses it can either stump up another $100 mill, or if it wins, pay nothing more at all.

The ruling affects two patents, relating to parallel instruction computing.

Intel has another alternative - to redesign the Itanium, which has been some years in the making.

The Huntsville Times suggests that this is sort of a speed appeal. Each party in the case has 15 minutes to make its case, and a few minutes to rebut the other party's argument.

The world can now only wait, agog. µ

L'INQ
Huntsville Times

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