intellectual property

Some guy called Matthew Robert Young has filed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court in Oregon against Intel Corporation and Steve Jobs personally. His filing (court papers – PDF) demands a jury trial and requests an “extrodinary hearing”. How extrodinary? Very extrodinary.

Young is currently a “State prisoner confined in the Oregon Department of Corrections, Snake River Correctional Institution.” He has brought this civil action suit to court claiming he told Jobs about virtualization technology, and when Jobs passed on the technology he told Intel about it.

In 2003, Young wanted Jobs to help him develop and market his intellectual property and patentable invention, or to buy it from him for $250 million. Young claims Jobs never responded to his requests, but instead forwarded the intellectual property to Intel. This, in turn, allowed Intel to make virtualization technology work with Core 2 Duo.

More about the extrodinary story here, here and here.

Fortinet, a provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions, has announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the company four additional patents for network virtualization and security related inventions. These new patents strengthen Fortinet’s intellectual property portfolio, bringing Fortinet’s total awarded patents to 17.

Charles Cote, Fortinet Regional Director for Australia and New Zealand commented on ARN:

“Security consolidation and virtualisation are key business trends for enterprise networks. Fortinet is the clear technology pioneer in the unified threat management space, with a long track record of innovation. Our security consolidation solutions based on these new virtualisation patents will help our customers build more efficient and easier to manage security systems.”

The four new patents reflect Fortinet’s focus, on innovative methods for processing network data while applying various security-related filtration processes within a consolidated and accelerated platform. Three of the newly awarded patents are directed to the routing and processing of data in virtualized environments.

“These patents support Fortinet’s innovation and vision for an integrated, multi-threat and virtualised approach to network security – groundswell areas for the networking and security industries,” said Michael Xie, CTO and co-founder of Fortinet. “As we continue our strong research and development efforts, our growing patent portfolio provides momentum for accelerating the course of innovation we are undertaking.”

[Source: ARN]

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