ITC Believes Nvidia has no Case on Samsung & Qualcomm

Another day, another set of patents and lawsuits. This time it's NVIDIA going up against Samsung and Qualcomm. And actually, the ITC, or the US International Trade Commission, believes that Samsung Electronics and Qualcomm should be cleared of patent-infringement accusations from NVIDIA. This case between these three companies involve graphics processors that are used in Samsung's Galaxy line of mobile devices. If the result of the case is NVIDIA winning, we could see a number of Galaxy smartphones banned in the US. As well as other products containing the infringing processors.

On Monday, ITC staff members announced this in Washington as the commission began a public hearing for the case. Currently, the recommendations are included in a pre-trial brief. Which has been filed under seal because it contained confidential business information, obviously. According to Bloomberg's Matt Larson. Larson also stated that this is a significant advantage for both Qualcomm and Samsung, however no ruling will be made until later this year.

NVIDIA is the largest maker of chips for computer-graphics cards. This case could bring in as much as $2 billion in royalty payments for Samsung and Qualcomm using this technology. Which is a pretty big sum, and as big as Qualcomm and Samsung both are, that's still a pretty small royalty payment for each device.

"The parties will be presenting evidence all week," said Hector Marinez, a spokesman for Santa Clara, California-based Nvidia. "We look forward to making our case to the judge and to a successful outcome when he rules in October."

Royalties are something we're seeing more and more of each year. Microsoft actually makes around $2 billion off of royalties on Android devices. In fact, it's the reason why the Xbox and Windows phone sections of their business are still around, despite losing nearly $2 billion per year. Microsoft makes a few bucks off of each device that runs Android that is sold. Even those that are not Google's Android, but forked Android like Amazon's Fire OS for their Kindle Fire's. And even those OEMs in China that cannot use Google services – obviously because of the great firewall.

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