Le cause legali in America sono all’ordine del giorno e cosi oggi Apple ed altre 21 compagnie sono state citate in tribunale dalla Micro Unity System per la violazione di bne 14 brevetti.
Tra le varie aziende, oltre ad Apple, figurano Acer, Google, HTC, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Palm, Qualcomm, Samsung, Spring e Texas Instruments. La violazione consiste nell’utilizzo di una tecnologia mirata ad estendere il ruolo di calcolo del microprocessore per il controllo dei dispositivi quali iPhone e tanti altri device. Nei particolari la Unity System si riferisce a questi brevetti:
- U.S. Patent No. 5,737,547, “System for Placing Entries of an Outstanding Processor Request into a Free Pool After the Request Is Accepted by a Corresponding Peripheral Device.”
- U.S. Patent No. 5,742,840, “General Purpose, Multiple Precision Parallel Operation, Programmable Media Processor.”
- U.S. Patent No. 5,794,061, “General Purpose, Multiple Precision Parallel Operation, Programmable Media Processor.”
- U.S. Patent No. 6,006,318 C1, “General Purpose, Dynamic Partitioning, Programmable Media Processor.”
- U.S. Patent No. 6,427,190, “Configurable Cache Allowing Cache-Type and Buffer-Type Access.”
- U.S. Patent No. 6,725,356 C1, “System with Wide Operand Architecture, and Method.”
- U.S. Patent No. 7,213,131, “Programmable Processor and Method for Partitioned Group Element Selection Operation.”
- U.S. Patent No. 7,216,217 B2, “Programmable Processor with Group Floating-Point Operations.”
- U.S. Patent No. 7,260,708 B2, “Programmable Processor and Method for Partitioned Group Shift.”
- U.S. Patent No. 7,353,367 B2, “System and Software for Catenated Group Shift Instruction.”
- U.S. Patent No. 7,509,366 B2, “Multiplier Array Processing System with Enhanced Utilization at Lower Precision.”
- U.S. Patent No. 7,653,806 B2, “Method and Apparatus for Performing Improved Group Floating-Point Operations.”
- U.S. Patent No. 7,660,972 B2, “Method and Software for Partitioned Floating-Point Multiply-Add Operation.”
- U.S. Patent No. 7,660,973 B2, “System and Apparatus for Group Data Operations.”
Azioni legali simili sono davvero molto frequenti e solo nel 2009 Apple ha subito 27 casi del genere. Qualora la causa dovesse essere persa, la società sarebbe costretta a sborsare ben 21,7 milioni di dollari. Vi terremo aggiornati
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