Bit more info on NVidia/Samsung/Qualcomm lawsuit

[NTMBK]

Charlie over at S|A dug up an interesting document, looks like NVidia pulled a bunch of their claims over the summer: http://www.usitc.gov/secretary/fed_reg_notices/337/337_932_notice09012015sgl.pdf

(Charlie's story at http://semiaccurate.com/2015/10/12/nvidia-patent-licensing-devastated-itc-ruling/ )

Looks like perhaps they weren't confident that these ones wouldn't get invalidated on further scrutiny from the USPO. I'm not a lawyer though, anyone got any insight?

 

[Zanovar]

I just cant take that guy seriosouly about anything.does anyone.

 

[thesmokingman]

I just cant take that guy seriosouly about anything.does anyone.

It doesn't take much to get to where Nvidia is going with this. If they won, they could then sue everyone and force license fees on the industry.

 

[waffleironhead]

I just cant take that guy seriosouly about anything.does anyone.

Jen-hsun Huang? Me neither, and apparently the itc as well.

 

[Zanovar]

Jen-hsun Huang? Me neither, and apparently the itc as well.

haha

 

[ViRGE]

I just cant take that guy seriosouly about anything.does anyone.

I can't either. But in this case the important bits (that NVIDIA withdrew a bunch of complaints) are properly sourced, so that much is correct. This answers why the ITC ruling only dealt with 3 patents.

Looks like perhaps they weren't confident that these ones wouldn't get invalidated on further scrutiny from the USPO. I'm not a lawyer though, anyone got any insight?

I don't think it's the USPO doing the scrutinizing. Just the US ITC. In any case the cited document doesn't say why NVIDIA withdrew their claims (only that it wasn't something NV and Samsung had agreed to in a backroom deal) so that's speculation on Charlie's part. The ITC allowed it as there was no reason to deny it, and it made the case simpler.

 

[railven]

I'm not following this case to closely, any info on a counter suite? If Samsung/Qualcomm can win this, they better have a good counter measure.

 

[NTMBK]

I I don't think it's the USPO doing the scrutinizing. Just the US ITC.

Knew I'd get something wrong

I'm not following this case to closely, any info on a counter suite? If Samsung/Qualcomm can win this, they better have a good counter measure.

Samsung filed a counter suit a while back: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8715/samsung-nvidia-counter-suit Not heard anything else about it yet, though.

 

[Headfoot]

Charlie over at S|A dug up an interesting document, looks like NVidia pulled a bunch of their claims over the summer: http://www.usitc.gov/secretary/fed_reg_notices/337/337_932_notice09012015sgl.pdf

(Charlie's story at http://semiaccurate.com/2015/10/12/nvidia-patent-licensing-devastated-itc-ruling/ )

Looks like perhaps they weren't confident that these ones wouldn't get invalidated on further scrutiny from the USPO. I'm not a lawyer though, anyone got any insight?

Plaintiffs are the so-called "masters of the case" since they bring the complaint and alleged the wrongdoings. A plaintiff can withdraw their claims in certain circumstances. Here it looks like nVidia is withdrawing claims/patents from their ITC complaints because they dont want to get an invalidity adjudication on them. That, or they settled/crosslicensed for that claim. No plaintiff = no case. By extension, no claims = no complaint = no action.

Most forums will grant these withdrawals because they have very full dockets and they dont do extra work unless there are special circumstances that say they should.

Before people in this thread get their panties in a wad, every single major US corporation does stuff like this. This is how litigation works. Its gamesmanship, trickery, strategy, playing chicken. Patent litigation is called the sport of kings for a reason because its even more complicated. But every company that gets sued or sues regularly does stuff like this in the products liability field, unfair competition, trademark, patent, title vii, you name it. There is and always will be gamesmanship.

 

[NTMBK]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-nvidia-samsung-elec-usitc-idUKKBN0TY0B120151215

A U.S. trade body on Monday upheld its earlier decision that rejected Nvidia Corp's claims of patent violation by Samsung Electronics Co and Qualcomm Inc over use of Nvidia's graphics chip technology.

The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) decided not to review an initial order by an administrative law judge on Oct. 9 as it found no violation of Nvidia's patents related to graphics-processing chips. (1.usa.gov/1QpISQc)

 

[krumme]

And charlie at sa was right.

Nv lost it and lay flat.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10290/nvidia-samsung-settle-all-patent-infringement-disputes

http://semiaccurate.com/2013/06/19/nvidias-kepler-license-has-no-chance-of-success/