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To: graphicsguru who wrote (242157)	10/9/2007 2:28:08 PM
From: chipguy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Looks like a pretty bogus patent to me. The patent notes that people use fp already in software, but tries to suggest that it's massively original to do so in hardware. Huh? Of course, you never know what might happen when you litigate, It is apparent that you know little about patents or patent law. Massive originality, as you so naively put it, has little to do with anything. I have written up infringement claim charts as evidence involving a patent whose invention is a slight twist on the layout of a basic two transistor CMOS inverter. Sound silly? It was deadly serious business between two multi-billion dollar companies. So serious that the defendent never even elected to contest the infringement claim or the patent involved despite its usual tendency to litigate such matters vigorously. I had a quick look over this patent and it has 11 independent apparatus claims and 1 independent method claim that seem to encompass the scope of the invention rather well. Of course it will be up to a court to decide but IMO AMD's best bet is to show prior art involving hardware realization of the invention. Given SGI basically invented LSI based raster graphics and owned the high end for a long time that could be a tough nut to crack. BTW, AMD will really be in doo doo if SGI can dig up evidence that ATI engineers knew about SGI's patent but went ahead and infringed anyway.