DualCor sues Intel over Dual Core name

DualCor Technologies may be using some Intel hardware in its cPC handheld, but that apparently doesn't mean the two see eye to eye all the time, with the former company now suing the latter over its use of (you guessed it) the "Dual Core" name. According to The Inquirer, DualCor (which changed its name from GCVI in December 2003) says it trademarked "DualCor" in May of 2004, and claims that Intel knew about the name as early as December of 2003. Now, DualCore is saying that by using the "Dual Core" name, Intel is "likely to cause confusion, mistake or deception among consumers as to the source quality and nature of DualCor's goods." As a result, DualCor is looking for more than a million dollars in damages, as well as an injunction to prevent Intel from using the "Dual Core" name any further. No word from Intel just yet, it seems, although we're guessing its lawyers are hard at work on a "we can spell better than them" defense.

[ScOObyDoo @ Sep 4th 2007 8:39AM]

Ah yes. When your products fail, find the next source of income: sue someone.

[Arjy @ Sep 4th 2007 8:41AM]

It's the American way.

[Josef F @ Sep 4th 2007 9:48AM]

As an American, I take offense to that statement. You'll be hearing from my attorneys.

[L. Cyphre @ Sep 4th 2007 9:50AM]

*Salutes the US flag*

[Ike Turner @ Sep 4th 2007 8:42AM]

They obviously haven't been laid in quite a while. Go get some hookers you fools. Intel is going to rape your collective ass..

[yoshi @ Sep 4th 2007 8:50AM]

Translation: We thought that Intel using the DuelCore name might bring us some business. But since we're still a failure, we might as well try to get some settlement money before we file for bankruptcy.

[tokyosensei @ Sep 4th 2007 8:51AM]

sounds frivalrous

[Phil Perman @ Sep 4th 2007 8:53AM]

What I don't understand is, Intel doesn't actually use Dual Core as a trademark, its an industry wide was of describing, well, dual core processors. If the company was called CorDuo I could understand it, but this makes no sense.

[Muu @ Sep 4th 2007 8:53AM]

I thought it was Core Duo.

In any case, this is America, anything's illegal unless you're not able to make a profit off suing someone over it.

[Phour ZwanZig @ Sep 4th 2007 11:24AM]

actually is Core2Duo for the Dual Core..

Oppps.. Double Core..


Guess good thing AMD went the route of the X2..

[Corey Close @ Sep 4th 2007 8:55AM]

I like that they're only asking for a million dollars. What is this, 1981? Think big when you're looking for a frivalous lawsuit!

[ilh @ Sep 4th 2007 8:56AM]

They've just come out from freezing along with Dr Evil.

[Mark @ Sep 4th 2007 9:00AM]

Man this is pathetic, if you look on Intels website, you'll see and no doubt remember, that Intel actually used the registered name of Core Duo for it's dual core CPU's and now of course their Core 2 Duo's.
I don't think Intel has used Dual Core ONCE for it's nameing of CPU's exculisively to themselves, as said above it's the industry wide term, I suspect because Intel calls it's processors Dual Core as they are indeed Dual Core as named by the industry the sad little men at DualCor with no sex life to speak of what so ever feel the right to sue, look's like they haven't done any homework on this what so ever and a Judge will no doubt laugh his ass of at them trying to sue.

[shaun @ Sep 4th 2007 9:03AM]

I won't be confused between Intel Dual Core Processors and DualCor, because I have never heard of DualCor

[Ben Grimsbo @ Sep 4th 2007 12:30PM]

That is because you associated "Dual Core" with Intel, and not with DualCor, who clearly have a trademark on misspelling.

This lawsuit is clearly needed to make sure we all know there is a difference between "DualCor" and "Dual Core", aside from the space and proper spelling.

[TheWakeUpCall @ Sep 4th 2007 9:22AM]

Don't intel use CoreDuo anyway?

[ScOObyDoo @ Sep 4th 2007 9:24AM]

Dualcor has a bigger fish to catch. They were the first to make a dual booting WindowsMobile/Windows machine, and now HTC is doing the same in the Shift.

If they got their patents right then HTC should be next on their list.

[Techman @ Sep 4th 2007 9:30AM]

Isn't Dual Core just a generic name anyway?

[Phour ZwanZig @ Sep 4th 2007 11:27AM]

I agree.. Its like BurgerKing sueing McDonalds for using the word "Burger" with Cheese infront of it..

[captain underpants and the bringdown gang @ Sep 4th 2007 9:38AM]

Dual core stands for Dual Processor Cores on 1 chip. its not a brand name therefore to sue becuase your name happens to co-inside with the term would be ridiculous, lets not forget intel was not first on the scene with dual-core technology neither was AMD

IBM did in 2000 BEFORE DualCor Came out

Quoth the wiki: International Business Machines (IBM)'s POWER4, first Dual-Core module processor released in 2000 and POWER5 dual-core chip is now in production, and the company has a PowerPC 970MP dual-core processor in production that was used in the Apple Power Mac G5."

[Xzavier @ Sep 4th 2007 9:46AM]

I can sum it up with one word... STUPID!

Not to mention I remember reading about dual-cores and mutli-cores around 15 years ago.

Geese... some people.

[RedBull Runner @ Sep 4th 2007 11:58PM]

Geese... HONK! HONK!

[coolant8 @ Sep 4th 2007 9:56AM]

Intel changed names of the last gen 2 core CPU from 'Core Duo' to dual core in order to avoid confusion with the newer Core 2 duo series, eg:

Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core T2080 Processor it was Core Duo i think.

[coolant8 @ Sep 4th 2007 9:57AM]

Intel changed names of the first generation dual core CPU from 'Core Duo' to 'Dual Core' in order to avoid confusion with the newer Core 2 duo series, eg:

Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core T2080 Processor it was Core Duo i think.

[coolant8 @ Sep 4th 2007 10:02AM]

sorry for the double post, Any way, the DualCor guys are saying "likely to cause confusion, mistake or deception among consumers as to the source quality and nature of DualCor's goods." MG, can't intel way take it the same way?

I mean i never heard of DualCor and now I'm confused, dell, can i get a DualCor into my next laptop?

[boolean22 @ Sep 4th 2007 10:19AM]

Does anybody remember when Intel was inhibited of using the 586 brand, cause it responded to a technology standard (the good ol' 80586)? And when AMD tried to use it, they had to resort to "K5" moniker?

This is the exact same case. You just can't sue over a well known technology.

Umm, I'm guessing that AMD opened the umbrella before the rain when referring to their chips as "Multi-core" even when the X2 moniker sold the idea of a Dual Core. They don't need another enemy.

[Steve @ Sep 4th 2007 10:25AM]

Lawsuit for something stupid? I guess that makes my decision to NOT buy something from DualCor

[Mark @ Sep 4th 2007 10:29AM]

So... how about the part where you actually can't trademark something that applies to the market you're in? So Dell can't trademarket Computer, Microsoft can't trademark Operating System and no one in the electronics field can trademark Dual Core (which as you may notice is different from DualCor). Also if you're in more or less different fields, you may have the same trademark; see Apple Inc vs. Apple Records. Finally, the ability to use any programming language's compare string function would've saved these guys a LOT of court fees.

[Che @ Sep 4th 2007 11:13AM]

THE name is generic and descriptive. The suit is frivolous. That's why Creative didn't sue Apple when Apple came out with the Nano pmp player even though Creative already sold a Nano pmp.

[Ayle @ Sep 4th 2007 10:42AM]

Aren't "dual" core cpu supposed to be cpu with "2" core? As in tri-core 3 core 4core quad-core etc etc? They're never gonna win this one...

[nobody sane @ Sep 4th 2007 11:58AM]

I'm impressed that ass rape comments get moderated up. Aren't children back in school yet?

[dj-kenpo @ Sep 4th 2007 12:03PM]

acctually ass rape jokes are standard in any office that has coders/ animators/video editors.

well, standard in my office anyways, and I enjoy it. go be a prude somewhere else.

[Andy @ Sep 4th 2007 11:30AM]

Yeah, they'd have to argue Core Duo, which they won't win. Any other time Intel has used "dual core" it's been to describe how the product worked in generic words, not as a name, so they will never win the case.

[header97124 @ Sep 4th 2007 12:39PM]

Isn't Intel dropping Dual Core (and ViiV)?

[adam @ Sep 4th 2007 1:16PM]

i have a friend who just bought a toshiba laptop from best buy and the intel sticker on it says "Dual Core Pentium Inside"

not sure if thats a Core Duo what it is, while i was setting it up, i forgot to check what vista reported the CPU as.

[3rdsun @ Sep 4th 2007 3:47PM]

I think they should go back to using the name GCVI. At least no one cares as much.

[Twitchy @ Sep 4th 2007 4:51PM]

As long as the US justice system continues to allow crap like this and patent trolling to continue, then there is just one more excuse for companies to move off-shore, if they even bother setting up in the US in the first place.

[ScOObyDoo @ Sep 4th 2007 5:31PM]

The problem with these lawsuits is that they actually have the ability to wipe out millions off a companies stock value. No matter how frivolous it is. So they may very well end up getting what they want from Intel just to make them go away.

[Fruition @ Sep 5th 2007 2:33AM]

This is stupid as hell. I think I'll trademark the name OctoCor so that when Intel rolls out an 8-core CPU I can be all over them like sh** on Velcro.

[Dumb as a Brick @ Sep 6th 2007 3:21AM]

O.k I`m really confused now... I thought AMD sold CPU`s and Intel Sold Processors or was it Intel that sold CPU`s and AMD that sold Processors... ah screw it Im suing them both ;)