IBM sued over heat sink
Emission statement
A TAIWANESE firm filed a suit against Big Glue, alleging that IBM infringed its patent on a “heat dissipating device”.
CPU Mate alleged in a Texas district court that IBM uses patented technology in its Eserver Xseries 2 servers.
The patent in question is 7,021,368 – wittily called Heat Dissipating Device With Uniform Heat Points, which was filed on April 4th 2006.
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Comments
why does everyone have to sue each other?
This is getting to be a bit crazy, everyone sues someone else for something. Apple was almost sued for using the name "iPhone" and now this. Although I don't know much about how patents work and the laws behind them, I'm assuming that it is a lot of work to search through patents to find out if your tech infringes on someone else's. it is also a matter of time before every idea is patented, but I bet if that does happen, its far off...thankfully...Weather or not IBM knew is the deciding factor in this. If I'm right, they didn't know. if I'm wrong, I still think it is crazy that you can make people pay to use your idea, especially if the other guy thought of it too, not just copied it...