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Behind every great fortune," Balzac wrote, "there is a crime." That's the contention of the stunning lawsuit filed last week by Digital Equipment Corp. against microchip giant Intel. The great fortune in this case comes courtesy of the Pentium microprocessing chip, which runs 85% of the earth's personal computers and helped feed Intel $6.45 billion in revenues in the first quarter of 1997 alone. The alleged crime is Intel's "willful infringement" on 10 Dig-ital patents in building the Pentium series. And the suggested punishment: damages that could run into the billions and an injunction against continued...
With the ramparts collapsing around him, Digital CEO Robert Palmer must have seen little choice but all-out attack. The lawsuit claims Intel infringed on 10 Digital patents related to Alpha and other chips--though Palmer doesn't claim this piracy occurred during negotiations between the companies in 1990 and '91. Intel was then considering licensing Alpha technology for its next-generation chip; after both companies signed a confidentiality agreement, Dig- gital revealed the Alpha design. But the talks fell apart, and Pentium, sans Alpha, went on to become the soul...
NASHVILLE, Tenn.: The Lord may work in mysterious ways, but Mother Teresa hires muscle. Questions of "immaculate confection" aside, the Holy Mother of Calcutta has asked Nashville coffeehouse owner Bob Bernstein to quit baking his famed buns, shaped in her image, for his Bongo Java coffeehouse. She?s thinking lawsuit. Bernstein, whose $1.89 pastry has attracted a barrage of international publicity, from the BBC to Letterman, has no intention of shutting down his ovens, arguing: "If it were sacrilege, we'd stop. But it's not." While the coffeehouse's Nun Bun web site (http://www.qecmedia.com/nunbun/index.html) portrays the original...
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Fish Unlimited is now planning a second lawsuit against BNL as well as AUI and, if possible, the nine associated universities...