Intel Corp is not having having much luck in the courts these days, and another decision has gone against the company, this time in its pursuit of SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV’s US unit, SGS-Thomson Microelectronics Inc, which is fabricating Cx486 microprocessors for Cyrix Corp. SGS inherited a very broad patent cross licence agreement when Thomson-CSF SA bought Mostek Corp, and the Federal District Court in Sherman, Texas ruled that the US unit was acting within the scope of its existing licence with Intel in having products made by a sister company in Europe and subsequently reselling the product to Cyrix. The ruling is of course subject to appeal.
