Last year NVIDIA filed a lawsuit against Samsung, alleging that the South Korean tech giant had used its patents without their permission. They also wanted to block Samsung’s Qualcomm-powered smartphones from being sold due to the alleged patent infringement which no doubt would spell trouble for Samsung had it gone through.
However according to the latest developments, it seems that the ITC has ruled that Samsung did not infringe upon two out of three of NVIDIA’s patents. While it would imply that this means Samsung would have infringed upon the third patent, Judge Thomas Pender claimed that the third patent is invalid due to it not being a new invention when compared against previously known patents.
Unsurprisingly NVIDIA was not going to take this ruling lying down. According to an NVIDIA spokesman Robert Sherbin, it seems that the ruling will be reviewed by a full commission before the final decision is made this coming Friday, and he also stated that, “We remain confident in our case.”
For those unfamiliar with the case, basically NVIDIA claimed to have built the first graphics processing chip and released it in 1999, thus leading them to believe that Samsung and companies like Qualcomm, who use the Adreno GPU in their chipset, to have infringed upon their IP.
So why now, you ask? According to NVIDIA’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang in a conference call last year, it seems that the company has been actively trying to hold talks and negotiate with the accused companies, but to no avail.
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