&gt;  on account of any action, inaction, matter, thing or event, that occurred or failed to occur at any time in the past, from the beginning of time <i>through and including the Effective Date</i><p>I think this is the key part here - Intel is basically agreeing to never sue about anything that happened <i>through and including the Effective Date</i> but it doesn&#x27;t say anything about things that happen <i>after</i> the effective date.  I really doubt Intel would agree to such a thing.<p>So unless AMD made the licensing agreement 7 years ago and kept it secret, it wouldn&#x27;t be covered by that agreement.  That would be an interesting fuck-you the next time one of these settlements happen, though.