A CASE started in a San Jose district court against Intel, with a firm claiming it's infringed its trademark by using the Dual Core brand.
DualCor, in its filing on the 31st of August, said it wants the court to stop Intel infringing its name and registered trademark.

The Californian corporation was incorporated in December 2000 as GCVI and changed its name to DualCor Technologies in December 2003.

DualCor makes proprietary technology, it said, which improves the processing power, efficiency and portability of computers by using several CPUs working together.

It trademarked DualCor on the 14th of May 2004. In the complaint it said that Intel knew about the DualCor name as early as December 2003.

Intel's "use of the name 'Dual Core' is likely to cause confusion, mistake or deception among consumers as to the source quality and nature of DualCor's goods," it alleged.

DualCor wants about a million dollars for the alleged infringement, while it also wants the court to injunct Chipzilla from using the name. Which could be a tad tricky.

http://www.dualcor.com/

artical orginally from
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42099

DualCor and DualCore

that's like claiming Joe and Joey is the same name.

oh wait. are they the same?

*confused*

I doubt this will be an issue. Intel has always used the name Core Duo and Core 2 Duo for their dual core CPUs. Copyright infringement on statements like "Unleash the power of Dual Core" is not really sue-able... Its advertising and not the use of 'direct' names...

Thread should be in http://forum.lowyat.net/Hardware ,no?

any problem that can be settled with money is not a problem

That's the section to discuss hardware related stuff (technical, recommendation, guides), not trivial or entertainment news.

Cheers.

soooooooooo true. lump sump some more.

The news not funny huh?

Anyway, mod can please help me move this topic to hardware section? Thanks in advance.

i afraid the DualCor wanna make easy money out from intel...haih~

actually they should be happy intel using the name, it promote their product even more... who the hell ever heard of that small company call dual cor?

intel everyone knows

yes, easy money indeed
it's not easy to win the battle if u face a big titan alone

Cheers.

dual core is a common name

dude this case happened like 2 month ago

was in inquirer and fudzilla

kindda late on the news

repost? if repost, then tell mod to merge thread. XD

And why are they not adding AMD? both intel and AMD uses the tagline "Dual Core". Retards wanting quick buck

dualcor vs dual core, not even same spelling and typing way.. btw intel use "Intel Pentium Dual Core", the company claimed dualcor is register by them not register it as like intel use... no point fighting... just name (not even same) unless intel copy their technology to create proc...

It's all about the money.

if not call dual core call what?
2 core, twin core, core pair?

dual core isn't even a trademark to begin with

nothing better to sue, that's USA

This post has been edited by dattebayo: Nov 3 2007, 07:02 PM

I don't see anything wrong with dual core and dualcor.