Chris Leckness

You might remember the DualCor cPC, the UMPC-like device that never really made it out of the gate. Not too sure why, but I know it has earned the title of Vaporware in many circles. Now, they have lashed out a Microsoft in the form of a frivolous lawsuit...

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.

Is this lawsuit a last ditch effort? Will we ever see the cPC? Who knows.

Source : Engadget

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psionandy

dualcor's goods? dualcor's goods?

What goods could those possibly be?

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patrickj

Saw that the other day too. It does seem a bit desperate. Shame about that cPC device - that would have been a hot device if it came out at anything like the original timeframe ...

breley

Confusion, mistakes, deception? Riiiiiiiiiiiiight...

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Pocketbrain

Dual core... it's a descriptive turn. You might as well copyright the word "Purpl" so you own a percentage of everything in the world that happens to be purple.


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Don't Panic!

Next Target for DualCor = HTC

The HTC Shift does everything DualCor's cPc was supposed to but in a bigger form factor. The Shift runs a full Windows OS and a Windows Mobile OS on the same machine. I swear DualCor said they patented that dual OS configuration at some point in their marketing.

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