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Asustek plans to sue its rivals for patent infringement

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rjohnson11
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2014/09/18 01:05:54 (permalink)
http://www.kitguru.net/components/motherboard/anton-shilov/asustek-plans-to-sue-its-rivals-for-patent-infringement/
 
Apparently Asus doesn't want other mainboard manufacturers using the extra pins in the socket they designed 

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    seta8967
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    Re: Asustek plans to sue its rivals for patent infringement 2014/09/18 01:28:06 (permalink)
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    http://www.kitguru.net/components/motherboard/anton-shilov/asustek-plans-to-sue-its-rivals-for-patent-infringement/
     
    Apparently Asus doesn't want other mainboard manufacturers using the extra pins in the socket they designed 


    Although I kinda agree ASUS should have something for being innovative with the unused pins. I don't see how they could sue, especially since intel holds all the original patents. Patent Law always gives me headaches though.
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    Re: Asustek plans to sue its rivals for patent infringement 2014/09/18 12:11:34 (permalink)
    ASUS has no leg to stand on. But what the heck, ASUS is playing a marketing game in all of this. It got your attention so, job well done. The pins on the socket could do nothing and the marketing has still worked. ASUS doesn't manufacture the socket, Foxconn does.

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    Re: Asustek plans to sue its rivals for patent infringement 2014/09/18 16:05:07 (permalink)
    I don't see how this is patent infringement? The extra pins are already there anyway and simply unused. Now if the other mainboard manufacturers use the same software/hardware design to take advantage of that they might have a case, but I doubt they would really be that stupid and/or lazy and have surely come up with designs of their own. All that leaves then is the basic idea of using those extra pins to provide more OCing potential which, to my mind, can't be patented can it?
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    Re: Asustek plans to sue its rivals for patent infringement 2014/09/18 19:19:05 (permalink)
    Too funny!
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