Nvidia and AMD Sued Over Power Management in Chips

[Guest]

AMD as well as Nvidia are being sued by Power Management Solutions over one of the most basic power management functions in integrated circuits used today.

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[alvine]

Power management solutions just wants money

 

[computernerdforlife]

Motive: money
Reasoning behind this lawsuit: stupidity

Life goes on.

 

[trumpeter1994]

Lol goodluck with that power management solutions, your gonna considering your not rightfully listed as the owner and your trying to sue corporate giants.

 

[classzero]

Ha Ha Ha, US patent system sucks. Reform please.

 

[Northwestern]

Behold, a good example as to how patent office is being abused to halt technological advances.

 

[yyk71200]

I just had a thought. In order to experience damages, shouldn't one company be in direct competition with another? That is, shouldn't one company have a product that directly competes with another such as one GPU vs. GPU? If the products aren't in competition with each other (such as GPUs and PSUs), what kind of damages we are talking about?

 

[Murissokah]

The biggest stupidity is not the fact that they are sueing over such a minor technology, but the fact that the patent was awarded in the first place. How come someone gets a patent for "integrating" two existing technologies? Everything gets integrated eventually.

 

[Guest]

It's just extortion, using lawyers instead of the mobsters.

 

[jaber2]

If everyone is using thier idea without paying royalties then they are entitled to the damages. but we all know it was just an unproven idea, it took these companies to try out and come up with the right configuration to make it work, so it could have been first one who actually came up with a solution using thier idea whom should have gotten the pattent.

 

[moonzy]

I thought we were all supposed to be joining hands to celebrate A Brave New GREENER World?

 

[milktea]

Just another scheme though up by the pyramid scheme ppl. Unfortunately USPTO became their target.

 

[chomlee]

There needs to be an extorsion clause as a result of Patent lawsuites. When it is ruled there is no basis for the case and it is considered frivolous, the Judge could press charges against the plaintiff and they could be charged with Blackmail/Extrosion and possibly face jail time. I know this is a pipe dream and would never happen but it would certainly help put an end to the greedy scumfeeding lawyer problem we have here in the US.

 

[drwho1]

I have issued patent for the "Piss-Off Principle", this patent will be available free of charge
to anyone who wish to use it over frivolous lawsuits and their lawyers.

 

[Hypertraxx]

So this is the time where i live in. A time where everyone sues everyone for the sake of it, and everyone patents on everything for the sake of it.

Welcome to America

 

[eklipz330]

they shud just give them like $1000 and tell them to do something with their lives.

 

[maxinexus]

Of course it is about money. How would you feel if someone was using your patented idea without your permission and making money out of it. Look at this this way. When you write a paper and include other ideas in your paper without giving credit to the author you get kicked out from school for plagiarism.
Do it in business you get money. Good fro PMS.

 

[egowhip69]

Ha, easy solution to all this BS...

Make a law that states if you are suing another company or individual for "damages" and that you lost, that you have to pay the same amount you were suing for to the "wronged" party. Plus their Lawyers fees, plus all court fees, plus an additional 10% of total damages just cause you are a patent trolling moron.

Suddenly, suing unless you have a REAL reason to do so, looks MUCH less profitable.

 

[invlem]

Again the failure of the patent system to hand out patents to companies who have no intentions of actually pursuing the development of their patents beyond hording them to sue other companies.

As far as I'm concerned if you have no intention of actually persuing (developing) a patent idea, it should expire in a reasonable amount of time (2 years from acceptance) if you can't prove you've put resources into developing it into a product. This would keep these trolls at bay, or at the very least force them to do something constructive, like actually develop the technologies they're sitting on.

 

[Benihana]

Another idiot giving Texas a bad name.

 

[chechak]

Power Management concern laptop

 

[sonofliberty08]

the company was run by the lawyer

 

[buddhabelly34]

WOOHOO, Representin' the Dallas/Fort-Worth area proper there Power Management Solutions.

I'm just glad everyone wants a reform for this system.

 

[zanny]

[citation][nom]TheCapulet[/nom]This is one of the cases that has nothing to do with the US patent system, and instead has everything to do with overzealous patent holders and money hungry get-paid-either-way lawyers. Should this case actually end up it the courtroom, it doesn't tell the story of the patent system's incompetence (though it's noteworthy all on it's own), but instead the shining competence of the litigation lawyers and the epic incompetence of the defense lawyers. We'll hear next year that it finally made it's way to a judge, where everyone involved was promptly thrown out of his courtroom.[/citation]

It has everything to do with the patent system, because obvious shit like this should not be patent-able. You are supposed to patent new novel ideas, which really never exist anymore.

Patents are supposed to stop people from using your stuff as a frame of reference to make their own thing.

Which by itself is silly, it basically is like 5 year olds not wanting the guy sitting next to them to learn about building legos by watching him build a lego set.

 

[vandaminator]

Another patent troll?