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If you are going to file a lawsuit against even one of these companies, you’d better have a set of cast iron balls and some deep pockets. Now imagine filing a lawsuit against ALL of them at once. Yikes!

Implicit Networks isn't exactly a household name, but it sure looks like its trying to make itself known with its latest lawsuit, which takes aim at no less than Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, Sun and Real Networks (plus semiconductor company Raza Microelectronics). As you've no doubt surmised, the cause of all that litigiousness is some alleged patent infringement by those big name companies.
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That is what they get for using "Methods and System for Demultiplexing a First Sequence of Packet Components to Identify Specific Components Wherein Subsequent Components are Processed without Re-identifying Components". :eek:

Actually that is very brave to sue all these companies at once. I just hate to see what happens if the company wins. I hope it doesn't open a flood of paten lawsuits.
 
Dangerous to sue these companies at once, they can learn from eachother and use eachother as resources.

These guys wont win... I have a feeling they were waiting for the "make the pig fat before you kill it" concept.
 
Crimson said:
Is that because your a fanboy?
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I think it may be because if they win against AMD, Intel, nVidia et al... the cost is not going to be "absorbed" and will be passed on on one way or another.

not knowing if their allegations have merit, i will say if they are entitled to compensation because of patent violation then by all means they should get paid. on the other hand, if this is just a broad ambiguous attempt to make some money...fook em!

you do have to give them credit for having some brass cajones in trying to take them all on. that is some serious legal dept.'s to deal with.
 
Nows the time to buy shares in this company. Just be sure to sell them before the judge issues his verdict.
 
I'm going to copyright the word "components" so that I can sue these guys for abusing it without paying royalties.
 
I'm betting their main office gets a mysterious gas leak within the next few months and blows the hell up.

My money's on Intel :p
 
Is this another one of those useless patent holding companies that actually does nothing to progress technology?
 
Citizen86 said:
I'm betting their main office gets a mysterious gas leak within the next few months and blows the hell up.

My money's on Intel :p
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Nah, my money is on nVidia, nVidia is way more ruthless and a gas leak seems more their style. Now if a satellite crashed into company HQ then I'd suspect Intel... ;)
 
i cant even find a website for implicit networks? :confused:

sounds like another patent scam company
 
I might just patent "communication of a processor to a motherboard from a socket or slot on a motherboard" and sue them all!
 
Can't edit my previous post.

Now if this prompts some legal infighting on this between the defendees of the suite it would add credence to the lawsuite in and of itself.

IE if it is patent infringement on something that Intel licensed to the other companies or something. It would prove very interesting.
 
MaStaFLaSH said:
Nah, my money is on nVidia, nVidia is way more ruthless and a gas leak seems more their style. Now if a satellite crashed into company HQ then I'd suspect Intel... ;)
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Actually if that happens then we know that the US military was successful in their missle attack of that satellite tonight, but "with a lack in proper planning of where all the parts were going to land."
 
Patent : http://www.google.com/patents?id=EpEMAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4
Patent number: 6629163
Filing date: Dec 29, 1999
Issue date: Sep 30, 2003

So.. 9 years ago they patented, and now decide to sue nearly everyone making hardware. There has to be more to this story, reading over the patent reads as "whoop-de-doo". This seems to have a bit of SCO like ring to it.

Exavior said:
Somebody mind putting that into english please?
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The quoted part on the linked article:
"Methods and System for Demultiplexing a First Sequence of Packet Components to Identify Specific Components Wherein Subsequent Components are Processed without Re-identifying Components."

Its a good example of how to make something very ordinary, and plain sound amazingly complicated and worth suing over ;).

The full description looks to be several pages long, possibly tens of pages. It looks like its just a method of identifying hardware, a quicker method... but aside from that, it doesnt look like much more.
 
This will get shot down like many of the other bogus patents. Seriously, we need to go through re-examine all the patents and get this crap straight or just expire them all.
 
It's dumb enough to go after a small-time semi company with a patent so ambiguous you could drive a truck through it. They're suing everyone.

Countersuit with punitive damages much? Oh, what, you have been sued out of existence?

I hate trolls.
 
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