Special master tells Intel to fess up - The antitrust case rolls on

By Examiner Staff @ Thursday, May 15, 2008 5:49 AM

Section - PCs/Chips

The man appointed as 'Special Master' in AMD's antitrust case against Intel in the US has told Chipzilla to produce notes about its failure to produce certain documents.

Regular followers of this legal chipathon will know that a mass of documents are being requested by AMD not only from Intel but from a swarm of vendors and channel players too.

The Special Master was appointed by the judge in the case to try and make sense of the mass of documents that are being asked for by the plaintiff. In a notice, he said Intel will be compelled to produce lawyer notes concerning compliance with its evidence preservation obligations.

Unfortunately, one of the early instructions of the court concerned emails but Intel has an internal IT policy which deletes them in employees' mail boxes after they are 35 days old. Intel has obviously talked to its lawyers about this, but now the Special Master wants notes of what it said to its briefs. Er, the case continues at vast expense to everybody, no doubt.