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Why so glum, VMware? It's Friday. Oh, is it this $235m patent infringement invoice from Densify? Too bad, so sad

Iceberg86300

Just saw in another article that they were also hit with trademark infringement for describing something as "yadda yadda yadda allowing the densifying of yadda yadda yadda." Basically, used exactly as how it sounds: increase the density of some feature or performance metric.

Densify is in the dictionary & has nothing to do with IT. It's a treatment for wood to increase its, you guessed it, density.

How in the *+$? did they trademark a word that literally predates their very existence? Patents are one thing, but this is absolutely ridiculous.

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