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That's the way it should work, at least. But I have a nagging feeling that Intel wouldn't have done this so brazenly if (with the correct amount of lawyers and friendly judges) it wouldn't have seen a chance of the patent being upheld. Then again, "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity", so, who knows?!

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Strictly speaking, only the claims matter, and so the text if those would need to be read and used to determine whether it can be invalidated due to prior art. The claims have very little to do with the diagrams supplied, rather they are about a way to compress cache coherency transfers if the line is all zeros (kind of like LPDDR has, in a way).

That said, copying so many of a competitors' slides into figures is still stupid as it is highly unlikely to give a judge a great first impression.

IDK about intel, but quiet a few companies in their sphere offer employees bonuses for patents.

It would not surprise me in the least if this was something some employee did to get a pay bump.

I was thinking about that too - kudos to them if they pulled this off, but I hope they're not with the company anymore...

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