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Asetek has announced today that it has received its payment of around $600,000 from Cooler Master, following a lawsuit in which Cooler Master was found to have infringed on some all-in-one liquid cooler design patents. The lawsuit itself dates back to 2014, when a Jury ruled against Cooler Master on all complaints brought forward.
The lawsuit was brought against Cooler Master USA after Asetek discovered that the Cooler Master Seidon 120M, Seidon 120XL and Seidon 240M all-in-one liquid coolers may have been using a patented design. Eventually, a jury agreed, forcing Cooler Master to pay up 14.5 percent in royalty payments on infringing AIO units sold since 2012.
It turns out, that amount adds up to the tune of $600,000. For those who don't know, Asetek is a company that specialises in all-in-one liquid cooling solutions and is often used as an OEM.
This isn't the first big legal battle for Asetek either, previously the company attempted to block AMD from selling the FuryX graphics card, in part due to the fact that it used one of Cooler Master's AIO coolers under the hood.
KitGuru Says: That is a fairly hefty payout, though I'm sure Cooler Master will be relieved to have this particular legal dispute behind them at this point.
I’m guessing the cooler I picked up recently has something to do with the fallout from this. I have the Cooler Master MasterLiquid 240mm, Not the MasterLiquid PRO 240mm but the non PRO. It looks like an older style CM model dressed up and repackaged.
I went into the store looking for a temporary model while I make my mind up which case I want next and saw this thing sitting on the shelf in a way to smart box for £70, knowing the guy we opened it up and took a look and the build quality looked a bit too good for the price. We had a quick google and couldn’t find any reviews anywhere, it’s like it doesn’t exist. This thing is fully sleeved tubes and all and has some decent fans.
So anyway I took it home, installed it in a Be Quiet Silent Base 800 which isn’t the best case for watercooling and ran the AIDA stress test on a 6600K at 4.4ghz 1.3v for 2 hours and no core went over 61c. This temp cooler might just find it’s way into my wifes PC.
Found it, finding reviews is another matter http://www.coolermaster.com/cooling/cpu-liquid-cooler/masterliquid-240/
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Well, feck me.
All in all not a bad number for half a decade of patent infringement.
They got away cheaply