Intel sues National Intelligence Agency

AS INTEL MADE up the word "Pentium" to avoid facing its competitors using the un-trademarkable number 586, it is rightly jealous of the word it's rumoured to have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars inventing.

That would be why the firm has recently filed a suit against the Pentium Investment Corporation as an alleged trademark infringement under the Lanham Act.

It wants a Florida judge to rule that that the Pentium Investment Corporation doesn't use the word Pentium any more.

Seems kind of reasonable to us.

But taking out a legal action under the Lanham Act against the National Intelligence Agency Inc, an Illinois corporation, because it also uses the phrase National Intel seems a little less justifiable.

After all the phrase "intel" for intelligence is a well known phrase or saying, as far as we are aware. µ

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