未清偿的另一个专利战, 任何人.
在 2014, Nvidia filed its first-ever patent lawsuit. The target was Korean smartphone giant Samsung. 可以预见的是, Samsung struck back—but a jury’s verdict that came out on Friday shows neither side is getting traction.
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差不多一年半以后, the litigation hasn’t produced great results for either side. In October, an International Trade Commission judge 拒绝了Nvidia的投诉, 发现它的三个涉案专利都不受侵害或无效. The decision must be approved by the full commission to take effect.
更糟糕的是对Nvidia, 而自己的失败案例, one of Samsung’s counterattacks is advancing—albeit not against Nvidia directly. 十二月, an ITC法官表示，三星的专利权受到侵犯. “由于我们没有直接进口产品的任何显著量, they [三星] 已提起诉讼，要求禁止的使用我们产品的一些小公司进口,” 公司发言人在写 一个博客帖子上，他们将如何吸引三星的胜利.
在与ITC诉讼串联, Samsung also filed a countersuit in federal court. That suit resolved on Friday when a Virginia federal jury 保持 (PDF格式) that Nvidia didn’t infringe Samsung’s US Patent No. 6,819,602 and that one of its claims was invalid. The patent is entitled “多模式数据缓冲器和用于控制传播延迟时间的方法。”
Nvidia has its own patent claims in that court; 该公司现在可以得到一个听证会上，三星的情况下得到解决. But it looks like Nvidia started a patent war of attrition that is very unlikely to pay off.
