2011年9月23日星期五

Apple prosecuted for apple iphone and iPad nick 'patent rip-off'

Apple continues to be prosecuted through the Taiwanese fabless semiconductor-design firm VIA Technologies for ¡§C what else? ¡§C patent violation.

The patents involved, Via's complaint charges, are for technology utilized in microprocessors in Apple's iOS items that "generally provides efficient loading of information within the microprocessors and efficient conversion and transfers of information within the microprocessors".

Particularly, the 3 patents are 6,253,312, "Method and apparatus for double operand load", and 6,754,810, a continuation and refinement from the earlier 6,253,311, each of which being titled "Instruction looking for bi-directional conversion and transfer of integer and floating point data".

The suit is became a member of by co-litigants CenTaur Technology of Austin, Texas, and IP-First LLC of Fremont, California, both subsidiaries of VIA Technologies. The suit was filed within the Delaware US District Court.

The "Accused Apple Items" named within the suit would be the iPad and apple ipad 2, apple iphone 4 and apple iphone 4 CDMA, 4th-generation ipod device touch, and 2nd-generation Apple TV. The complaint demands that Apple be enjoined from posting these in to the US or, for your matter, from manufacturing them in america, as though which were ever going to take place.

The suit alleges that Apple's infringment be considered "willful" ¡§C which, if that's the case, would triple any damages the court might award to VIA and it is subsidiaries, if the court get in their favor.

The Reg forecasts funds, having a nice chunk of money floating over the Off-shore from Cupertino towards the Xindian District of recent Taipei City, Taiwan.

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