NVIDIA Corp. and Samsung may have both come to an agreement over the patent dispute issue; however, settlement details are still a bit limited. The two tech firms claimed infringement rights over each other 2 years ago, and vice-versa.
Samsung's counter-suit on NVIDIA's suit on the issue was supposedly due today, but the latter had already announced that it had made peace with the mobile tech giant, prompting legal closure on both sides, according to AnandTech. NVIDIA said that both companies have cross-license an agreed selection of patents from each company and vice versa.
Considerably not a wide-range cross-licensing deal, possible compensation and important details were not included in the announcement. News sources have also mentioned the risk involving NVIDIA products on a possible import ban should the company lost to Samsung's counter-suit. NVIDIA was put in a tight position to decide on whether or not to finalize its stand on the case raised against Samsung 2 years ago.
In a related BBC post, the computer-chip maker held a media conference back September 2014, citing Samsung's patent violation. CEO Jen Hsun-Huang claimed that Samsung had been freely using the company's tech in its devices.
Instead of waiting on the ITC's decision and further court rulings, NVIDIA Corp. revealed the big closure of its dispute with Samsung. Even though its rift with Samsung was a chanced opportunity on getting sided on with other mobile companies improperly using its patents, the cross-licensing agreement was NVIDIA's solution to the patent disputes.
A few months back, the International Trade Commission (ITC) had intervened into the patent conflict affecting both companies. Samsung's graphics processors were ruled out as free of infringing NVIDIA's patents, much to NVIDIA's dismay. In a rather compounding decision, the ITC further placed NVIDIA in an unlikely position, stating it had violated instead a few of Samsung's patents.
