By: Steve Chuang
Source: http://news.cens.com
Category: Apple Patent Infringement
Taipei, Nov. 29, 2011 (CENS)--The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) recently dismissed a patent-infringement lawsuit filed by S3 Graphics against Apple Inc., claiming that the latter doesn’t violate the former’s patented technologies involved in the case.
ITC’s ruling in favor of Apple in the case is definitely a disappointment to Taiwan’s HTC Corp., which, one of the top three smartphone vendors in the U.S. by market share now, bought out S3 Graphics in mid-2011 as a strategic move to counter Apple’s continual patent-infringement charges against it, in a bid to urge the competitor to reach negotiations.
In response, HTC’s general counsel Grace Lei commented that her company respect but is disappointed at ITC’s final determination, and it will seriously consider taking all possible means, including filing a compliant with ITC, in the short term to safeguard its interests.
In fact, ITC issued a ruling on the patent-violation dispute in favor of S3 Graphics earlier, but reversed the ruling eventually, sending shock waves through the industry.
Patent experts in the U.S. opine that ITC commissioners made the final determination perhaps because of invalidity of S3 Graphics’s patents involved in the dispute, or in regard of patent exhaustion
On patent exhaustion, industry insiders also commented that Apple’s graphic chipset supplier Nvidia has already reached a patent cross-licensing agreement with S3 Graphics. In other words, this enables Apple, which adopts Nvidia’s graphic chipset in its electronic devices, not to subject to the patent violations claimed by S3 Graphics.
The patent battles between Apple and HTC’s proxy have yet to cease, for S3 Graphics just launched another patent-violation lawsuit with ITC against Apple on November 8, saying that the latter has infringed four of its patented graphic processing technologies widely used in computers and mobile electronic devices.
Source: http://news.cens.com/cens/html/en/news/news_inner_38529.html
Source: http://news.cens.com
Category: Apple Patent Infringement
Taipei, Nov. 29, 2011 (CENS)--The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) recently dismissed a patent-infringement lawsuit filed by S3 Graphics against Apple Inc., claiming that the latter doesn’t violate the former’s patented technologies involved in the case.
ITC’s ruling in favor of Apple in the case is definitely a disappointment to Taiwan’s HTC Corp., which, one of the top three smartphone vendors in the U.S. by market share now, bought out S3 Graphics in mid-2011 as a strategic move to counter Apple’s continual patent-infringement charges against it, in a bid to urge the competitor to reach negotiations.
In response, HTC’s general counsel Grace Lei commented that her company respect but is disappointed at ITC’s final determination, and it will seriously consider taking all possible means, including filing a compliant with ITC, in the short term to safeguard its interests.
In fact, ITC issued a ruling on the patent-violation dispute in favor of S3 Graphics earlier, but reversed the ruling eventually, sending shock waves through the industry.
Patent experts in the U.S. opine that ITC commissioners made the final determination perhaps because of invalidity of S3 Graphics’s patents involved in the dispute, or in regard of patent exhaustion
On patent exhaustion, industry insiders also commented that Apple’s graphic chipset supplier Nvidia has already reached a patent cross-licensing agreement with S3 Graphics. In other words, this enables Apple, which adopts Nvidia’s graphic chipset in its electronic devices, not to subject to the patent violations claimed by S3 Graphics.
The patent battles between Apple and HTC’s proxy have yet to cease, for S3 Graphics just launched another patent-violation lawsuit with ITC against Apple on November 8, saying that the latter has infringed four of its patented graphic processing technologies widely used in computers and mobile electronic devices.
Source: http://news.cens.com/cens/html/en/news/news_inner_38529.html
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