A U.S. judge threw out a patent- infringement lawsuit filed by a Canadian company that sought $500 million from Intel Corp., the world's biggest computer-chip maker. U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee in Alexandria, Virginia, granted Intel's request to dismiss the case on Feb. 9. The judge said he will consider Intel's request to force closely held All Computers Inc. to pay Intel's legal fees. Toronto-based All Computers claimed that Intel's Pentium and Celeron chips infringed a 1996 patent owned by All Computers for circuitry used to replace slower microprocessors with faster devices in computers. All Computers claimed it pioneered the technology that helped companies make faster computers. Lee said Intel didn't infringe the patent.

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