Samsung Electronics Co is seeking to block computer-graphics chips made by Nvidia Corp from the US market, escalating a battle begun after licensing talks failed.
Samsung filed a complaint on Friday against Nvidia with the US International Trade Commission (ITC) in Washington, according to a notice on the agency’s Web site.
The legal battle began in September when Nvidia filed its own ITC complaint against Qualcomm Inc and Samsung over patented ways to improve graphics. It is asking the ITC to block imports of the latest Galaxy phones and tablets that use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon graphics processing units or Samsung’s Exynos processors.
Samsung retaliated on Nov. 4 with a patent-infringement suit in federal court in Richmond, Virginia. In that case, Samsung claims Nvidia and one of its customers infringe as many as eight patents. That lawsuit targets Nvidia’s Shield tablets.
Each company has denied using the other’s technology. In a Nov. 11 statement, Nvidia called Samsung’s lawsuit “a predictable tactic.”
“We have not seen the complaint so can’t comment, but we look forward to pursuing our earlier filed ITC action against Samsung products,” Nvidia spokesman Hector Marinez said in an e-mailed statement.
Also named in the ITC complaint on Friday were computer-parts manufacturers including Taiwan’s Biostar Microtech International Corp (映泰) and Elitegroup Computer Systems Co (精英).
The new case is: In the Matter of Certain Graphics Processing Chips, Systems on a Chip, Complaint No. 3042 and the Nvidia case is In the Matter of Certain Consumer Electronics and Display Devices with Graphics Processing and Graphics Processing Units, 337-932.
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