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To: Les H who wrote (70160)	11/6/1999 12:58:00 AM
From: umbro	Respond to of 132070

INTC 1, MSFT 0: Intels wins appeal v. Intergraph dailynews.yahoo.com Saturday November 6 12:02 AM ET Intel Wins Appeal Of Injunction In Intergraph Case PALO ALTO, Calif. (Reuters) - The world's largest chipmaker, Intel Corp (Nasdaq:INTC - news)., won an important antitrust victory Friday when an appeals court lifted an order that compelled Intel to give microprocessor technology to Intergraph Corp (Nasdaq:INGR - news). The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel most likely did not break U.S. antitrust laws when it did not give advance product information and technology to Intergraph, an Alabama maker of workstations and graphics computer chips. ''Intergraph has not shown a substantial likelihood of success in establishing that Intel violated antitrust laws in its actions with respect to Intergraph or that Intel agreed by contract to provide the benefits contained in the injunction,'' the court wrote in its decision. In making the ruling, it lifted an injunction originally granted in April 1988. After Intergraph alleged patent infringement claims against the 31-year-old chipmaker, Intel stopped providing advance chip information to Intergraph, which it routinely does for customers so they can design new computers around the latest microprocessor designs. ''We're gratified that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit agreed with all of our major arguments concerning antitrust laws,'' said Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy. ''In particular, we're gratified that they understood and ruled that Intel's actions did not harm competition.'' For its part, Intergraph said in a statement that the most recent ruling, ''has no significant impact on the other parts of our lawsuit: the patent case, which is now under appeal, and the tort case.'' The Court, in its 2-0 ruling, also rejected Intergraph's allegation that Intel monopolized the market for the brains of personal computers, or microprocessors, illegally, because Intergraph does not compete with Intel in that business. Intel shares rose 13/16 to 82 3/8 on the Nasdaq.