SGI Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against ATI

malware · Oct 24, 2006

SGI announced yesterday that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against ATI Technologies Inc. in U.S. District Court - Western District of Wisconsin. In its Complaint filed yesterday, SGI asserts that products in ATI's line of Radeon graphics processors infringe U.S. Patent No. 6,650,327. The Complaint seeks unspecified damages and a Court Ordered injunction against future infringement by ATI. "The Company's technology covered by the '327 patent is an important resource in achieving enhanced graphics processing demanded by today's computer systems," said Dennis McKenna, CEO of SGI. "SGI has licensed this technology to ATI's major competitors and, as I have previously been stating publicly, SGI intends to aggressively protect and enforce its IP. This is the first visible step in that process."

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ktr · Oct 24, 2006

lol, sgi is trying to get some money back after declaring bankrupt.

Steevo · Oct 24, 2006

Read the patent for a good laugh about anyone using things such as 16 bit fog, etc.... So Sis is in violation as well. So is every graphics chip maker that has ever made a chip capable of 16 bit rendering in some way, as well as the game maker for not using 24 bit or other.

overcast · Oct 24, 2006

oh good god, will this shit ever end. by the time every is done suing everyone else. they'll all be right back to where they started.

WarhammerTX · Oct 24, 2006

Well keep in mind what Nvidia did to 3dfx one reason I will never buy nvidia cards greedy whores.

lemonadesoda · Oct 24, 2006

Just to pose another rediculous legal scenario... Since YOU the USER were USING an "illegal" product (illegal use of intellectual property as representing in patent xyz), then YOU the user are a felon to the crime.

EastCoasthandle · Oct 24, 2006

lemonadesoda said:
Just to pose another rediculous legal scenario... Since YOU the USER were USING an "illegal" product (illegal use of intellectual property as representing in patent xyz), then YOU the user are a felon to the crime.

I thought that made you an accessory? :wtf:

Nyte · Oct 25, 2006

No one seems to give ATI (AMD) a break

Time to get my old resume back old again.

DaMulta · Oct 25, 2006

Who bought SGI?

ktr · Oct 25, 2006

SGI declared bankruptcy because of the Intel itanium.

newtekie1 · Oct 25, 2006

I think Fark put it best:

SGI has no customers left, but the new business model involves suing everyone on the planet that uses a frame buffer.

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