In September 2014, Nvidia filed a complaint against Samsung and Qualcomm at the USA’s International Trade Commission (ITC). Nvidia accused Samsung of infringing on three patents, and wanted to block sales of Samsung’s Qualcomm-powered smartphones.
The ITC has now ruled that Samsung did not infringe two of the patents. It did infringe the third, but judge Thomas Pender ruled that the patent was invalid, as it was not a new invention compared with previously-known patents.
Nvidia has said that it will review the ruling in full. The company’s original complaint was based around GPUs: it said that it had built the first in 1999, and other companies were simply copying its work.
