Intel is known for their mighty Core 2 Duo, but it looks as though the processor was not home-grown. A lawsuit filed today by the University of Wisconsin claims that the processor infringes on patented technology developed by one of its professors. In 1998, the computer science department chair Gurindar Sohi presented some of his ideas relating to instruction level parallelism to Intel and offered to sell them, but Intel never paid for them yet used them to created the Core 2 Duo, according the the lawsuit. Intel says that it’s been talking to the Badgers for over a year and has not recieived a complaint, Intel may want to do something quick because the University of Wisconsin is asking for the court to stop shipments of the Core 2 Duo in addition to monetary damages and legal fees.

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Intel and Transmeta have now come to an agreement. The agreement calls for Intel to license Transmeta’s patents for $150M upfront and $20M a year for the next five years, and Intel can do nothing if Transmeta decides to license its LongRun tech to another company. No info on how the company plans to serve its two competitors.