Wednesday, September 21, 2011: Via Technologies, a Taiwan based semiconductor company, has sued Apple for three counts of Patent infringement. In the lawsuit filed in the Delaware District Court, Via technologies has alleged that Apple is infringing the following three patents:
US 6,253,311 : Instruction set for bi-directional conversion and transfer of integer and floating point data - Filed on Nov 29, 1997
US 6,253,312: Method and apparatus for double operand load - Filed on August 7, 1998
US 6,754,810: Instruction set for bi-directional conversion and transfer of integer and floating point data - Filed on April 10, 2002
The plaintiff list also includes IP-First LLC and Centaur Technology. Via Technologies is the parent company IP-First LLC and Centaur Technology.
US 6,253,311 : Instruction set for bi-directional conversion and transfer of integer and floating point data - Filed on Nov 29, 1997
US 6,253,312: Method and apparatus for double operand load - Filed on August 7, 1998
US 6,754,810: Instruction set for bi-directional conversion and transfer of integer and floating point data - Filed on April 10, 2002
The plaintiff list also includes IP-First LLC and Centaur Technology. Via Technologies is the parent company IP-First LLC and Centaur Technology.
This almost raise a question that why VIA is suing Apple for this, even if the patent result is against Apple ,Apple is quite juicy so won't be that much problem to them.
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