In a short forum article, this is the update to the battle between Samsung,Nvidia and Qualcomm
over the the future of gpu patents and licensing.
Nvidia has posted an update.
Quote:
"As is now common for patent infringement lawsuits, a pre-trial Markman hearing
was held by the judge overseeing the case in order to better determine
the language of the patents, the actual legal claims, and how they will
be interpreted by the judge at trial. The purpose of a Markman hearing
is essentially to hammer out legal definitions ahead of time so that the
case is argued and decided on facts and merits as opposed to arguing
the definition of various terms and technologies.
In what NVIDIA calls a “favorable ruling” from the ITC, NVIDIA has
received what they consider to be favorable definitions in 6 of their 7
disputed claims. To be clear this is not any kind of ruling on the
validity of the claims themselves, but only that the court has (largely)
sided with NVIDIA’s definitions for those 6 claims.
As for the importance of this pre-trial hearing, as NVIDIA is the
plaintiff in this case, doing well at the Markman hearing is essentially
one of the several hurdles they have needed to clear to bring the case
to a full trial. Alongside various pre-trial motions to have the case
outright dismissed, a poor Markman hearing outcome can stop a case as it
would have put NVIDIA on the back foot in the full trial. This latest
ruling essentially means the case wil proceed as planned, with the next
hearing scheduled for June."
And one last thing, remember the counter-suite against which Samsung put against
Nvidia ans Velocity Micro, well the judge in that case has denied Nvidia's request
to move the case from Virginia(Vleocity Micro's home state) to California(Nvidia's home state).
Source:http://www.anandtech.com/show/9143/samsungnvidia-case-update-nvidia-receives-favorable-outcome-at-markman-hearing