US ITC to Investigate Samsung's Patent Infringement Case Against Nvidia
Samsung's infringement case against Nvidia over
semiconductor-related patents will now be investigated by the US International
Trade Commission.
On Tuesday, the International Trade Commission (ITC) voted
in favour of Samsung to investigate the claims against Nvidia of infringing on
several of its semiconductor-related patents and for making false claims about
its products.
Notably, in September, Nvidia had filed a lawsuit against
Samsung and Qualcomm for infringing its patents on graphics processing
technology. It had filed the lawsuits in the US District Court for the District
of Delaware and the US ITC. So, now Samsung's counter-allegations against
Nvidia are seen as the follow-up to Nvidia's action.
To remind you, Samsung's allegations over Nvidia include
deliberate infringement of several technical patents. The company has also
accused Nvidia of false advertising when it says its "Shield" tablet
sports the world's fastest mobile processor, the Tegra. Samsung cites
benchmarking studies performed by researchers at Primate Labs as proving that
claim false.
Earlier, Nvidia had accused the South Korean giant and rival
Qualcomm of infringing patents on its graphics-processing unit (GPU).
"They're using our technology for free in their devices
today and they're shipping an enormous number of devices," Nvidia Chief
Executive Jen-Hsun Huang had said about Samsung and Qualcomm.
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