AMD R9 Fury X Could Be Impacted by Liquid Cooling Lawsuit

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/24/2015 08:57 AM | source: | 49 comment(s)

But the big name here really is Cooler Master. Asetek, the company that provides many of the industry's LCS coolers for Corsair and NZXT, had a win in a patent infringement case against Cooler Master (CMI) in 2014. Late last year Asetek took Cooler Master's parent company, CMI, to court for infringing its patents on all-in-one liquid coolers.

Asetek won the court case, with the jury unanimously ruling in favour of Asetek, and was awarded damages from Cooler Master at a 14.5 per cent royalty rate. CMI obviously thought it had grounds to appeal and demanded a new trial.

The court "denied CMI's demands, and instead substantially followed Asetek's requests and issued a permanent injunction barring CMI and its parent Cooler Master from selling certain infringing products into the Unites States". Another unfortunate upshot of CMI's re-trial is that the judge awarded Asetek enhanced damages at a 25.375 per cent royalty rate on all infringing products sold this year. CMI can and may decide to appeal again.

The following Cooler Master products are effected by the new court ruling:

Seidon 120V / Seidon 120V Plus / Seidon 120M / Seidon 120XL / Nepton 140XL / Seidon 240M / Glacer 240L / Nepton 280L

The impact and effect of the trial could advance over Asetek and CMI. AMD's Radeon R9 Fury X graphics card features an all-in-one liquid cooler, made for AMD by Cooler Master. It remains to be seen what will happen to these graphics cards being marketed and sold in the US.

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Noisiv
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#5163986 Posted on: 09/25/2015 03:08 PM

Yeah you are right, it's my definition of "Patent trolling" which is screwed up. I also use it for patenting something crazy, like shape, working conditions, setup of tools using to create some content etc etc.

how do you call ppl talking about things they don't know anything about

or ppl screaming patent troll! every time someone gets sued for patent infringement.

RealNC
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#5163992 Posted on: 09/25/2015 03:16 PM

you are not so far from what reality is... the spoon patent have been grant near us despite it is one of the oldest tool of humanity.

Sometimes, real life is stranger than fiction. There is a patent owner trying to convince the world that the set of integers does not include the number 1.

I'm not making this up:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/our-broken-patent-system-work-patent-owner-insists-integer-does-not-include-number

This is happening for real. Spoons and doors sound even less ridiculous that that.

vdelvec
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#5164202 Posted on: 09/25/2015 09:17 PM

I see people complaining about Asetek but this is exactly same same as Thermaltake stealing CaseLabs design's. This is exactly the same: Stealing.

NAMEk
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#5164217 Posted on: 09/25/2015 09:47 PM

how do you call ppl talking about things they don't know anything about

Stupid.

or ppl screaming patent troll! every time someone gets sued for patent infringement.

People who opened their eyes? who believes that patent system is misused most of the time? Especially if event takes place in USA.

jbmcmillan
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#5164226 Posted on: 09/25/2015 10:05 PM

Stupid.

People who opened their eyes? who believes that patent system is misused most of the time? Especially if event takes place in USA.

Just because it's in the States doesn't necessarily mean it's trolling this isn't Apple patenting rounded corners.

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