On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 01:45:19PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
xdrudis wrote:
They might just use a watchdog:
Ok. I'm rereading the link Gigabyte gave me,
Please read the US Patent.
I wasn't aware. I hadn't read your mail when I wrote mine. I started to read it, but your summary was more useful. As usual claims are so broad (they claim a computer, not merely a BIOS, a whatchdog, some circuit or a motherboard), so broad you can't even buy a CPU, DIMMS and their motherboard and build a PC unless you comply with some license by them, and who would buy a motherboard and not build a PC with it ?. I guess they give you a license for the patent when you buy their motherboard, but then under what terms ? Don't take it as legal advice, IANAL, I guess any judge would narrow the claims to the inventive step or something, just laughing at the tipically silly language.
But of course you meant the description, not the claims.
Thank you.