"SGI has licensed this technology to ATI's major competitors and, as I have previously been stating publicly, SGI intends to aggressively protect and enforce its intellectual property," said Dennis McKenna,
SGI's CEO since January, in a statement.
SGI filed its complaint Monday in U.S. District Court for the western district of Wisconsin. The complaint requests a trial by jury.
ATI spokesman Chris Evenden said the company is looking into the lawsuit details. "We're not commenting until we've analyzed every aspect of it," he said.
The patent, filed in 1998 and awarded in 2003, involves describing graphical elements with floating-point numerals to balance the range and precision of values that can be stored. Floating-point numbers include an exponential component that spans a wide range of numbers, but that range can come at the expense of the precision afforded by the main alternative, integer numerals.
When *all is lost* & your share options are worthless - Sue others for Patent Infringment & give the last of SGI's meager possesions to the lawyers.
Well, the article said they just came out of bankruptcy, but this move would lead one to ask if they just don't care about technology anymore and want to try and make a living sponging off of companies in better financial shape.
Charles R. Whealton Charles Whealton @ pleasedontspam.com
Web giant is spending $120 million to beef up its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, according to filings with the city reviewed by the San Jose Mercury News.
The Samsung Galaxy Mini 2 S6500 could make its debut at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this month, according to a leaked promotional image.
MIT creates a simulation to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Spacewar. A relic of the early days of minicomputers, it was one of the first computer video games and set the stage for many others, including Asteroids.
Goodbye SGI hate to see ya go....
move would lead one to ask if they just don't care about
technology anymore and want to try and make a living sponging
off of companies in better financial shape.
Charles R. Whealton
Charles Whealton @ pleasedontspam.com