Ontario (Oregon, USA) - A man named Matthew Robert Young has filed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court in Oregon against Intel Corporation and Steve Jobs personally, should his presence be deemed necessary by Intel. His filing demands a jury trial and requests an "extrodinary hearing" (sic).


Young is currently a "State prisoner confined in the Oregon Department of Corrections, Snake River Correctional Institution." He has brought this civil action suit to court claiming he told Jobs about virtualization technology, and when Jobs passed on the technology he told Intel about it.

Young also claims he is currently being "unlawfully held and restrained of his liberty and freedom in the Snake River Correctional Institution ... which subject matter is currently being brought on a separate civil action..."

On page 6 of the court filing, Young declares:

"[THAT], If anyone in the world today can come before this Court, at an evidentiary hearing, and present to this Court a creditable challenge, (which would be during an Evidentiary Hearing Held Before this Court, wherein All of the parties are provided time chance and the opportunity to present to this court the actual applications for these commercially valuable products), which are known as the [Core-2 Duo Micro Processor, and Virtual Technology], allegedly invented by Intel Corporation, then pro se plaintiff agrees to be HELD liable for the Ten Thousand Dollar [$10,000.00] civil fine fees. But first here is pro se plaintiffs standing upon factual contention as required in part by FRCP Rule 11, which pertains to [the proprietary information, the actual trade secrets] of the true application of the [Core-2 Duo micro processor, and Virtual Technology], of which Intel Corporation only knows the potential Applications of these Technology products, as Intel Corporation was provided by Mr. Steve Jobs, and not it true Technological Trade Secret Designs that will make these commercially valuable Technology products work, and perfonn to their fullest ability, and capacities."

He goes on to claim that he can prove it with a live demonstration before the court:

"Pro se plaintiff is the only person in the world at present who knows how to make both the [Core-2 Duo micro processor, and the Virtual Technology] work, and pro se plaintiffcan in fact come before this U S District Court and prove it by a factual DEMONSTRATION," and that "plaintiff declares here that this action is a JUST cause, and not for harassment purposes..."

In 2003, Young wanted Jobs to help him develop and market his intellectual property and patentable invention, or to buy it from him for $250 million. Young claims Jobs never responded to his requests, but instead forwarded the intellectual property to Intel. This, in turn, allowed Intel to make virtualization technology work with Core 2 Duo.

I won't continue any further with this article as I believe the validity of his claim is self-evidenced. In truth, if this case is not thrown out of court in an outright and expedient manner, then I really don't know what I'll do.

It true I tell you

Jan 06, 2009 13:34     

He also invented the electric toothbrush, the Radio, HAARP and the internet. Anybody can sue - winning in another matter.
Chris Brown report abuse vote down vote up Votes: -2

This is crap...

Jan 06, 2009 13:47     

virulization existed well before this... I guess he told sun, ibm, microsoft etc about it too... What a complete farce...
Enlighten report abuse vote down vote up Votes: -1

He stole my idea

Jan 06, 2009 14:36     

The bugger stole my idea. I was going to do the exact same thing. Geez, I guess I should sue Young now for the same amount! LOL HaHa
Ying Yang report abuse vote down vote up Votes: -2

Steve Jobs is a worm

Jan 06, 2009 14:49     

Here's a guy reaching the grand old age of 60 and he still can't do what's right. Jobs has been rippin people, and getting ripped back I might add. Still only Steve can put an end to his back street cheating ways, and do what's right. As far as the state holding this guy, FOLKER has arisen, and has taken revenge.
George Clooney report abuse vote down vote up Votes: -11

american legal system fawed.

Jan 06, 2009 15:48     

if we had follow the british system on these kind of law suits, if this guy lose, he will have to pay for court fee , lawyer fee plus damage back to apple and intel...hence making him more broke (as if he is not already broke), plus may be even jail term for him. that should stop some of these stupid guys from slowing down the real cases in courts.
yo report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

Typical for lawyers

Jan 06, 2009 16:13     

The sad part of this is that some lawyer took his case. Lawyers are destroying this world, one motion at a time.
Bill report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

He even invented Al Gore.

Jan 06, 2009 16:37     

But seriously, he claims, "Pro se plaintiff is the only person in the world at present who knows how to make both the [Core-2 Duo micro processor, and the Virtual Technology] work, . . ." Then later we read, "Young claims Jobs never responded to his requests, but instead forwarded the intellectual property to Intel. This, in turn, allowed Intel to make virtualization technology work with Core 2 Duo." So.... if he is the only one who can make it work, how did Intel make it work? Isn't that a slight contradiction, no, wait a HUGE CONTRADICTION? [He gave Jobs the information (who then forwarded), thereby removing the contradiction. -Rick]

Ronald Stepp report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +2

Virtualization has existed since the 1960s

Jan 06, 2009 17:24     

Virtualization has existed since the 1960s and is nothing new. Most new hardware (e.g. Processors) is developed on virtual. Intel (and AMD) did add some assembly level instructions for hardware assisted virtualization about 2005 or 2006, but HW assist has existed since the early 1970s (IBM 370 I think), so the only claim he could possibly have is that he invented a way to make it work with Intel chips and they stole it, which I think is an uphill battle (and unlikely).

Clewin report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +1

No lawyers were involved,

Jan 06, 2009 18:16     

The filing was "pro se", meaning the plaintiff (a convicted criminal by his own admission) is representing himself. I don't particularly care for lawyers (but I am one myself -- IP law), but no lawyer is representing this person. [There's the old saying: "A man who represents himself in court has a fool for a client." -Rick]
John report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +1

So let me get this strait...

Jan 06, 2009 22:07     

He had no product and he wants money for an idea that's been around since before 2003? A) virtualization has been talked about for years, I mean years, talking like since early 1970's. It wasn't a far stretch to believe that Intel and others might start adding support for it once EMC started releasing a product called VMWare in the late 90's. B) he had no product, what was he going to sell? Something he had read online?

Action Jackson report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

He'll get double

Jan 06, 2009 22:32     

I'll pay him another 5 Billion if he wins
gopsf report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

Virtualize this!

Jan 07, 2009 04:14     

Virtualize this!
s report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

Re: So let me get this strait...

Jan 07, 2009 17:55     

It wasn't a far stretch to believe that Intel and others might start adding support for it once EMC started releasing a product called VMware in the late 90's. Actionjackson: EMC only bought VMware in Dec. 2003 however VMware released it's own virtualization products way back in 1998 i think...
pcrew report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

writer is biased and stupid

Jan 08, 2009 13:59     

I think the guy should have his day in court because if true Intel needs to be slapped because of its business policies they have concistantly broken laws in many countries and deserve it. And if they didnt well then who cares, no one has the right to judge this man and his claims except the judicial system. [I agree with your philosophy and believe everybody deserves to have their day in court - provided there is merit and a real basis to their claim. -Rick]

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Steve Jobs

Jan 12, 2009 18:14     

WEll vertualization has been out but not advanced virtualization and if this guy can prove it, how it works and he should of had a lawyer pass the information to steve, this way there would be no dispute, and if its true steve had passed then information in anyway then this guy could be telling the truth.
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