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Guru3D.com » News » Asetek to sue Cooler Master

Asetek to sue Cooler Master

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/12/2013 10:00 AM | source: | 10 comment(s)
Asetek to sue Cooler Master

Yesterday word came out that Asetek is going after Cooler Master, claiming CM's new Seidon 120M, Seidon 120XL and Seidon 240M infringe upon two of its watercooling patents. Asetek tells the court that it informed Cooler Master to cease and desist on November 28th, 2012 but given the lack of a satisfactory response, Asetek decided to go the legal route on January 31st, 2013. The company wants Cooler Master to cease and desist on infringing both patents and it wants damages paid.

This involves patents 8245764 and 8240362 in the USA. These patents where granted in August 2012. Asetek in the past already has sued other competition like CoolIT. 

I don't see whether a patent breach is warranted really, the liquid cooling loop setup is such a common thing and the patients have too little details as far as I can see. What's next Asetek ? Sue the car industry ? They use the same liquid cooling methods as well.

Oh in other news, we are reviewing the Seidon kits as we speak ;)



Asetek to sue Cooler Master




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schmidtbag
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#4551490 Posted on: 03/12/2013 02:33 PM
holy crap a tech lawsuit that doesn't involve MS, Apple, Samsung, Oracle, Intel, Nvidia, AMD, or IBM. Not only that, it's a lawsuit on something reasonable. Like I actually hope Asetek wins because they weren't patent trolling, they were just simply trying to protect their product.

glutto
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#4551589 Posted on: 03/12/2013 04:25 PM
So it looks like they've patented water cooling in general.

lucidus
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#4551598 Posted on: 03/12/2013 04:37 PM
Water cooling patents?! lol .. a patent for something so basic?

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#4551609 Posted on: 03/12/2013 04:45 PM
It's not really about the idea of water-cooling loop setup but rather on how Asetek is implementing it.

And no, it's not a patent about 'water-cooling in general'.
I don't think those writings (and the images it references) under the 'DETAILED DESCRIPTION' section can be considered generic to any water-cooling loop setup.
The first half of the patent is a generic overview of a cooling loop setup, but what's written after all that is definitely not.

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#4551613 Posted on: 03/12/2013 04:49 PM
but it's the common way to do it, i don't see something special to be as a "patent" here.

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