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Judge rules that Samsung and Qualcomm do not violate Nvidia patents
According to a judge ruling from the International Trade Commission, Samsung and Qualcomm do not violate Nvidia patents. Nvidia released this news themselves on their blog. Nvidia will appeal this ruling.
NVIDIA:
In the latest step of our efforts to protect NVIDIA’s intellectual property, an administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled today that Samsung and Qualcomm did not violate U.S. law with respect to importing certain Samsung products into the U.S.
Judge Thomas Pender issued an initial determination that Samsung and Qualcomm didn’t infringe two NVIDIA patents, and that both did infringe a third patent but that this patent wasn’t valid.
This initial determination is one more step in a long legal process.
We now intend to ask the full commission (which is made up of six commissioners) to review this initial determination and to confirm the previous judgment of the U.S. Patent Office — that the third patent is valid. If they agree, the ITC would issue an order that would preclude Samsung from importing into the U.S. infringing Samsung mobile devices and smart TVs.
We are continuing this case by proceeding to the next step in the process because we believe our patents are valid and have been infringed.
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#5171633 Posted on: 10/12/2015 10:24 AM
it depend on where you live (50years once there, each 4year there... ), and how patent work there... it's very hard in international law (and can make lot of money).
one of the best school case is Dyson (the vacum cleaner and fan) everything is lock worldwide and let one or two step ahead to the company at each time a patent expire.
Major blow for patent troll nVidia very rare they loose a case still that patent is about to expire very soon anyway, assuming it's 20 years that they where granted rather than the typical 14 years.
it depend on where you live (50years once there, each 4year there... ), and how patent work there... it's very hard in international law (and can make lot of money).
one of the best school case is Dyson (the vacum cleaner and fan) everything is lock worldwide and let one or two step ahead to the company at each time a patent expire.
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#5171639 Posted on: 10/12/2015 11:02 AM
it depend on where you live (50years once there, each 4year there... ), and how patent work there... it's very hard in international law (and can make lot of money).
one of the best school case is Dyson (the vacum cleaner and fan) everything is lock worldwide and let one or two step ahead to the company at each time a patent expire.
50-100 years if it's copyright, patent is 14-20 years under US legislation anyway. Patent is consider a short term and is much easier to get hold of compared to copyright. Thats why the system is in such a mess with patents cause pretty much anyone can patent something.
it depend on where you live (50years once there, each 4year there... ), and how patent work there... it's very hard in international law (and can make lot of money).
one of the best school case is Dyson (the vacum cleaner and fan) everything is lock worldwide and let one or two step ahead to the company at each time a patent expire.
50-100 years if it's copyright, patent is 14-20 years under US legislation anyway. Patent is consider a short term and is much easier to get hold of compared to copyright. Thats why the system is in such a mess with patents cause pretty much anyone can patent something.
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#5171672 Posted on: 10/12/2015 02:10 PM
How is this patent trolling?
Nvidia owns the patents on a large number of basic GPU mechanisms, all of which they license out and already receive a sizable chunk of revenue from. If Samsung is infringing on that then they should also have to pay the licensing cost. If Samsung isn't, it's still Nvidia's job to protect it's patents to the best of it's ability otherwise other licenses will just claim the patents are invalid and Nvidia will lose them.
This isn't Rambus.
Major blow for patent troll nVidia very rare they loose a case still that patent is about to expire very soon anyway, assuming it's 20 years that they where granted rather than the typical 14 years.
How is this patent trolling?
Nvidia owns the patents on a large number of basic GPU mechanisms, all of which they license out and already receive a sizable chunk of revenue from. If Samsung is infringing on that then they should also have to pay the licensing cost. If Samsung isn't, it's still Nvidia's job to protect it's patents to the best of it's ability otherwise other licenses will just claim the patents are invalid and Nvidia will lose them.
This isn't Rambus.
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#5171684 Posted on: 10/12/2015 02:45 PM
Patent laws vary very significantly between different countries. Some countries have fair, proper patent laws that protect the intellectual property of the ORIGINAL designer of a concept. Other countries (I won't mention them) seem to allow patenting of things that SHOULD NOT be allowed to be patented, or allow patenting other peoples ideas if the patent has already expired, and especially true if the patent holder is from another country.
Patent laws vary very significantly between different countries. Some countries have fair, proper patent laws that protect the intellectual property of the ORIGINAL designer of a concept. Other countries (I won't mention them) seem to allow patenting of things that SHOULD NOT be allowed to be patented, or allow patenting other peoples ideas if the patent has already expired, and especially true if the patent holder is from another country.
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Major blow for patent troll nVidia very rare they loose a case still that patent is about to expire very soon anyway, assuming it's 20 years that they where granted rather than the typical 14 years.