Another patent war that isn’t paying off, for anyone. In 2014, Nvidia filed its first-ever patent lawsuit. The target was Korean smartphone giant Samsung. Predictably, Samsung struck back—but a jury’s verdict that came out on Friday shows neither side is getting traction. Nvidia claimed that Samsung Galaxy phones and tablets containing Qualcomm’s Adreno, ARM’s…
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Nvidia Corp. lost its claims against Samsung Electronics Co. and Qualcomm Inc. after a U.S. trade agency said there was no violation of Nvidia’s patent rights related to graphics-processing chips. The U.S. International Trade Commission upheld on Monday a judge’s October findings that cleared Samsung…
Read MoreFour of top five Chinese smartphone firms now have inked deals Qualcomm has inked a technology licensing deal with smartphone maker Xiaomi – a major Chinese firm that previously balked at paying royalties for use of the San Diego company’s patents. The deal announced Wednesday…
Read MoreIn a report citing data from Thomson Reuters’ Patent Search Service and World Intellectual Property Service (WIPS), Samsung filed for the most amount of patents for wearables between 2003 and 2014, with Philips second, and Panasonic third. Samsung Electronics has the most patents in wearable…
Read MoreThe jury is in, so to speak, and the commission has finally ruled that Samsung has not infringed upon Nvidia graphics chip patents. Of course, this situation is nothing new for the mobile technology company as they are frequently under fire from the ITC, having…
Read MoreA federal appeals court has handed Microsoft a win against Google in a long-running lawsuit over patent licensing that was originally filed against Motorola in 2010. A panel of three judges from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld a lower court…
Read MoreThe winners from the 2014 patent wars are announced – and they’re winners for investors, too. The world’s top 10 companies that scored patents in 2014, which also traded on a major U.S. exchange, aren’t just innovation winners, but stock winners, too. Shares of the…
Read MoreXiaomi Corp. became the biggest smartphone seller in China without an extensive — or expensive — collection of patents. That low-cost approach is now backfiring as accusations of technology infringement stall its global push. Ericsson AB sued Xiaomi in India, saying the smartphone maker hadn’t…
Read MoreARM CEO Simon Segars has defended the company’s stance on smartphone graphics technology linked to a patent suit brought forward by chip maker Nvidia. On Monday, the chief executive defended the firm’s intellectual property, involved in a looming patent suit brought forward by Nvidia against…
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