News Cooler Master sues competitors for infringing on patented pump-inside-radiator cooler design

[Admin]

Cooler Master is suing three cooler manufacturers for supposedly infringing on its patented cooler designs surrounding its pump-in radiator architecture.

Cooler Master sues competitors for infringing on patented pump-inside-radiator cooler design : Read more

 

[peachpuff]

So they can't put the pump in the cooler, they can't put it in the rad, did someone patent "pump in hose" yet?

 

[digitalgriffin]

Money Grab.

Bad form.

 

[hotaru251]

Placement of a pump in a loop should NOT be allowed to be patented. It restricts options & effectively makes a monopoly in that sector.

in AIO theres literally only 3 options: the pump in rad, the hose, or coldplate.

we alreayd have patens on both ends now only missing 1 is hose...and thats not exactly a good idea as pumps are weight and sag a hose that has no ability to hold itself up in a system.

 

[Devoteicon]

Didn't MSI's MAG CoreLiquid series get a recall for faulty pumps or something? I'm guesing CM saw that and didn't want people to think their design was faulty if MSI stole it. Or maybe their design deviates just enough from CM's that it wouldn't be worth it.

 

[Findecanor]

Placement of a pump in a loop should NOT be allowed to be patented. It restricts options & effectively makes a monopoly in that sector.

I hope this gets to court, and that the patent gets invalidated there for not being inventive enough.

Unfortunately, a granted US patent can't get invalidated without going to court.

 

[Sluggotg]

Patenting the location of a pump is a system? Patenting that the pump will have an inlet and outlet? How about I patent a Sandwich. "It shall have a lower piece of bread and an upper piece of bread. Then there shall be assorted fillings."

I am a Cooler Master fan but this seems a bit wrong.

 

[umeng2002_2]

So they can't put the pump in the cooler, they can't put it in the rad, did someone patent "pump in hose" yet?

I'm sure the Patent Office has patented "nitrogen inside a human lung."

US patents. You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

 

[jlake3]

So they can't put the pump in the cooler, they can't put it in the rad, did someone patent "pump in hose" yet?

If you could somehow make a standard thickness soft hose that also functions as a pump, you might actually have something worthy of a patent.

Unlike these two.

Also, the Swiftech H240 preceded Cooler Master's patent by 5 years. That was a discrete pump mounted on the radiator rather than an integral pump embedded in the radiator, but "What if we did that layout and built the pump into it better?" doesn't seem particularly novel.

 

[HopefulToad]

The US patent system is a farce. It should be abolished.

 

[ravewulf]

There are only so many ways to build an AIO water cooler and none of them are novel ideas, just choosing a known option out of a limited set.