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.

Dual Core and DualCor....
there is a different... what to sue...zzzz
I know Dual Core, but what is Dual Cor ??
i think DualCor got a bit !@#$, why don't they register their name as Dual Core at the early stage ? huhu.....really...

Dual Core and DualCor quite diff mah....heard bout this issue also..

even its a late news here, its also late in terms of dual cor sue-ing intel after quite some time releasing dual core processors.

must be just money minded bastards who has nothing else to do

wtf is dualcor? i nvr heard about it

there was someone posted on a engadget site regarding this topic:-

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This post has been edited by darjana: Nov 5 2007, 06:51 PM

that issue is juz like side income for them~ everyone knows that Intel is a filthy rich company in this world... even if Intel can pay them easily, DualCor sounds stupid n weirdo... like a retard human that hav only 1 eye... DualCor n Dual Core... i think the FLM of DualCor has insufficient education for failing to read the difference between it...

USD 1million?? Ha-ha...CHIPZILLA can pay 100 times that to lawyers just to smack them on the head for fun.

It's all about money, small little fish wanna have a glimpse of glory from the big, rich and famous. I'm pretty sure Intel will have tonnes of these kind of allegations day in day out, I guess, the legal system in US does promote ppl to do whatever they pleases and hence results in exploitations and abuse of the legal systems. Welcome to the real world..... ahem.. not so working real world

It's like Windows and Lindows, Hybrid and Hybrid Theory... OH NO IT'S ALMOST THE SAME YOU CAN'T USE IT!!! Americans... i'll sue you for sueing me!!!

thx we lived in malaysia... coz our court so "malas" to do this kind of cases... they'll try to neutralize it so both party wont get any benifit from it but of course, who stared it hav to pay for the premium...

well... again~ DualCor sounds really stupid...

Another money matter court case. Fed up with it.

1mil aint bad seeing as intel are raking in hundreds more

u sure the court neutralize them...?

whos better ati or geforce???

public_bank, i dont quite understand what are you asking...nor it is relevant to this thread discussion

back to the topic, i dont think dualcor can win the case because dual core is a common term

but if not mistaken amd only use x2 to indicate dual core & not dual core wording for their processor

anyhow, dualcor & dual core exactly not a same

aiya what so big deal... every year Intel also got lots of lawsuit cases... they also biasa dee lah... haha

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Added on November 10, 2007, 6:24 pmaiya what so big deal... every year Intel also got lots of lawsuit cases... they also biasa dee lah... haha

This post has been edited by ikarishinji: Nov 10 2007, 06:24 PM

What does this hafta do with the topic?