“The US International Trade Commission today said that Apple is not violating patents held by S3 Graphics in its products and is terminating its investigation on the matter. The decision follows a mixed ruling in July, where an ITC judge found Apple to be infringing on two of S3 Graphics’ patents, while not infringing on two others. A final decision on the matter was due last week, with the ITC electing to postpone it until today for reasons unknown.” That’s one of the 3958354635635627658358365367 cases closed.
That’s an impressive 92 bits.
It would appear that 64bit CPU registers are no longer sufficient and that we now need 128bit arithmetic to exactly count the number of legal cases. Who says patents don’t encourage innovation?
HTC bought S3 for litigation purposes. You would think they would understand the concept of Karma?!!
I notice that HTC have lost interest in closing the S3 deal… That makes HTC a rather nasty patent troll… Why don’t they just invent their own stuff?
That was just to allow time for the checks to clear
So balanced that he must have forgotten to note that IPCom have just won an injunction against HTC selling 3G devices in Germany due to HTC’s willfull disregard of patents…
Thom is a biased Apple hater, always has been. Remember the Psystar case? That’s when Thom showed his true colors.
It is alright to have opinions, just don’t push them as news. OSAlert is a news site and not Thom’s personal blog.
Edited 2011-11-26 01:18 UTC