Asetek recieves $600K as a result of a Patent Infringement lawsuit

[WYP]

Asetek has announced that they have now received a payment of $600K as a result of their Patent Infringement lawsuit against Cooler Master.



Read more on Asetek's winning their lawsuit against Cooler Master International.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Asetek. Bunch of pansies... "We closely monitor competition". Yeah we can tell... Sue more often than Samsung and Apple.

 

[AlienALX]

Asetek. Bunch of pansies... "We closely monitor competition". Yeah we can tell... Sue more often than Samsung and Apple.

So if some one stole something from you you'd make them a cup of tea, pat them on the back and send them on their way?

Yuh, right.

 

[NeverBackDown]

So if some one stole something from you you'd make them a cup of tea, pat them on the back and send them on their way?

Yuh, right.

I never said they were wrong? I was merely pointing out they are stating the obvious because they are constantly in the news for suing or something negative.
And to answer your question, last time someone tried stealing for me(a brand new bike), I beat the crap out of him and his friends along with my best friend. So no, I wouldn't make a cup of tea for them, I don't even like tea

 

[Dawelio]

I never said they were wrong? I was merely pointing out they are stating the obvious because they are constantly in the news for suing or something negative.
And to answer your question, last time someone tried stealing for me(a brand new bike), I beat the crap out of him and his friends along with my best friend. So no, I wouldn't make a cup of tea for them, I don't even like tea

So you do something illegal instead, assault

 

[AlienALX]

So you do something illegal instead, assault

What Asetek are doing is the legal version of assault. Probably the same route NBD would take if he were in their shoes.

Surprised Caselabs have not taken on Thermaltake tbh.

 

[NeverBackDown]

So you do something illegal instead, assault

Actually it's self defense. They were robbing me and I was protecting my property.

What Asetek are doing is the legal version of assault. Probably the same route NBD would take if he were in their shoes.

Surprised Caselabs have not taken on Thermaltake tbh.

I would have yes, but all my point was is that they just constantly do this stuff. Should rename the company​ to "We take legal action all the time"

 

[Bridges]

What Asetek are doing is the legal version of assault. Probably the same route NBD would take if he were in their shoes.

Surprised Caselabs have not taken on Thermaltake tbh.

Caselabs ended up apologising, probably after realising that a company like Thermaltake could afford the legal action but they couldn't.

 

[AlienALX]

I would have yes, but all my point was is that they just constantly do this stuff. Should rename the company​ to "We take legal action all the time"

When you are the pioneer of a product you will find yourself constantly having to make sure no one rips you off. Asetek pretty much invented the AIO and if they did not then they made it mainstream.

I guess it never gets old hahaha. I mean if you were Asetek you'd probably be rolling in dough and bored. What better way to spend an evening than filing lawsuits

$600k is a bit lame though really.

 

[NeverBackDown]

When you are the pioneer of a product you will find yourself constantly having to make sure no one rips you off. Asetek pretty much invented the AIO and if they did not then they made it mainstream.

I guess it never gets old hahaha. I mean if you were Asetek you'd probably be rolling in dough and bored. What better way to spend an evening than filing lawsuits

$600k is a bit lame though really.

It's quite a bit i'd think for such a niche market

 

[AlienALX]

It's quite a bit i'd think for such a niche market

Oh I dunno dude. If you think about it pretty much every builder (so like Dell (Alienware) Origin etc, pretty much every company who builds PCs) uses an Asetek of some sort. Usually branded with their logo like and custom with shorter hoses in the case of my Area 51. That's a lot of coolers man.

In that sense they almost have a monopoly. I guess it was cheaper for AMD to use Cooler Master for the Fury X though but yeah, still pretty much every AIB uses Asetek.

 

[Bartacus]

Surprised Caselabs have not taken on Thermaltake tbh.

Why would they? TT never ripped off Case Labs. Oh, you mean that stupid fan grill pattern that CL ripped off of every mainframe / SAN manufacturer in the universe? Pffft, that was a DUMB argument to begin with. CL's grill pattern was stolen by CL from enterprise data centers, where every hardware mfg. from IBM to Sun was using the same damn thing. TT didn't rip off CL in the least, and everyone who thought so was a moron. The end.

 

[Dawelio]

Actually it's self defense. They were robbing me and I was protecting my property.

First off, I'm not defending them in any way, shape or form here. All I'm stating here, is simply the action of which you took, from what you have described it as.

There's a fine line between "self defense", to "protect your property" and, I quote:

I beat the crap out of him and his friends along with my best friend.

So no, I don't agree with it being self defense. If you "beat the crap" out of him, it's not self defense. Self defense is when you use the necessary force to protect yourself, or your property, in this case, from being damaged or hurt, in any way, shape or form.

"The right of self-defense (also called, when it applies to the defense of another, alter ego defense, defense of others, defense of a third person) is the right for persons to use reasonable force or defensive force, for the purpose of defending one's own life or the lives of others, including, in certain circumstances, the use of deadly force."

- From Wikipedia (NOT really an reliable source, but just to give an idea of what I mean here)

And if you beat him to death, which is what loosely and basically, "the crap out" means, for robbing you. And not trying to endanger your life, then you went above and beyond that. Which then went into the zone of assault. And possibly homocide, depending now on just exactly how badly you "beat the crap out of him and his friends".

My apologies and sorry, off topic here. Just an explanation of my view on what NBD wrote.
And anyway, I'm out of this now

 

[Sliced]

What Asetek are doing is the legal version of assault. Probably the same route NBD would take if he were in their shoes.

Surprised Caselabs have not taken on Thermaltake tbh.

It's not assault.
It's taking back what was originally theirs.

 

[Peace Ð]

Do the 2 pictures show the products this case is about? If yes, then I'm wondering why Thermaltake didn't have to face any lawsuits, yet, for ripping off AIO designs, case designs etc. of many different manufacturers.

 

[jimma47]

Do the 2 pictures show the products this case is about? If yes, then I'm wondering why Thermaltake didn't have to face any lawsuits, yet, for ripping off AIO designs, case designs etc. of many different manufacturers.

Most likely licenced the Asetek or Cool It tech or came up with something sufficiently different so as not to be a patent infringement. It's all about paying the fee to use the technology.

I think as much as the whole suing everyone sucks they had every right to do so.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

My issue with properties like Asetek's is that it throttles innovation. It leaves it all to one company. If Asetek hadn't developed the idea of installing a pump on the CPU block, somebody else would have. It's a novel idea, but it's not exactly ingenious. When you shamelessly sue others for trying to innovate on an idea that was 99.99% guaranteed to happen at some point, you're essentially suing because you started using fans with LED's before someone else did. It was going to happen. It all it would take is time. Asetek were simply the first to the gate.

 

[Dawelio]

My issue with properties like Asetek's is that it throttles innovation. It leaves it all to one company. If Asetek hadn't developed the idea of installing a pump on the CPU block, somebody else would have. It's a novel idea, but it's not exactly ingenious. When you shamelessly sue others for trying to innovate on an idea that was 99.99% guaranteed to happen at some point, you're essentially suing because you started using fans with LED's before someone else did. It was going to happen. It all it would take is time. Asetek were simply the first to the gate.

True, but at the end of the day, they were first to do it and have paten on it. So they have every right to sue.

 

[AlienALX]

My issue with properties like Asetek's is that it throttles innovation. It leaves it all to one company. If Asetek hadn't developed the idea of installing a pump on the CPU block, somebody else would have. It's a novel idea, but it's not exactly ingenious. When you shamelessly sue others for trying to innovate on an idea that was 99.99% guaranteed to happen at some point, you're essentially suing because you started using fans with LED's before someone else did. It was going to happen. It all it would take is time. Asetek were simply the first to the gate.

I think it was a bit deeper than that. They (CM) pretty much copied the inner workings of the Asetek pump unit.

No other manu has been sued. Raijintek, Deepcool, Corsair etc. None of them have had any issues.

I don't think CM would have been handing over any money if they were just similar.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

I think it was a bit deeper than that. They (CM) pretty much copied the inner workings of the Asetek pump unit.

No other manu has been sued. Raijintek, Deepcool, Corsair etc. None of them have had any issues.

I don't think CM would have been handing over any money if they were just similar.

But that's part of my point. Did they actually prove CM copied Asetek or did they prove that the designs were very similar because there are only so many ways you can develop a pump atop a CPU block? This is an issue I have in general with people suing others over intellectual property. There are times where it's clear something has been stolen, like the recent case of Oculus. But then there are cases such as in the music industry where a folk artist from the 70's sues an indie band from 2010 for penning a chart-topper that has a very similar melody to this obscure folk song from the 70's. How do they actually go about proving judicially that the work was stolen?