Samsung Could Face Ban Of Galaxy Note 4, Note Edge, Galaxy S5 As NVIDIA Wins Patent Infringement Suit’s Preliminary Round

Not long ago, the chipmaker NVIDIA lodged a complaint against Qualcomm and Samsung with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). This is in regards to patent violation by the aforementioned companies. As it turns out, the concerned federal body has ruled against both Qualcomm and Samsung and therefore an investigation has been ordered.

In retrospect, NVIDIA launched a complaint against Samsung and Qualcomm on September 4 for seven different patent infringements. Apparently, NVIDIA has spent a total of $9 billion on Research and Development from 1993 specific to technology. And it believes that there should be a payoff for all the hard work that went in for nearly 21 years. However, quantifying the technical research without licensing the work is a herculean task, opines Phone Arena.

This is exactly why Samsung reacted immediately stating that the company will leave no stones unturned to repel the accusation by NVIDIA. NVIDIA also pointed out that a complaint was lodged only after talks failed with Samsung's representatives. According to reports, the Korean multinational did not budge and instead, felt the problem pertains to the supplier.

However, NVIDIA did not buy Samsung's rationale and hence the chipmaker opted to slap the Korean tech giant with a legal notice. If the final investigation turns out in the favour of NVIDIA, Samsung's high-end devices like Galaxy S5, Galaxy S4, Galaxy Note 4, Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Note Edge with a bent-screen in the smartphones department, will be banned in the U.S. Moving on to the tablets, Samsung might have to forgo the latest Galaxy Tab S with a mind-blowing display, Galaxy Note Pro and Galaxy Tab 2.

All the aforementioned devices are powered either by Qualcomm's Snapdragon or Samsung's Exynos processors. And NVIDIA believes both the chipmakers are meddling with its patent portfolio. David Shannon, CAO and executive vice president at NVIDIA, stated the following after the favourable first round ruling, "We are pleased with the ITC decision today to open an investigation and look forward to presenting our case on how NVIDIA GPU patents are being used without a license."

Nevertheless, readers should note that, the investigation and the after-math will take a long-time to arrive at a conclusion. Therefore, at this point, Samsung devices are still up for grabs.

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