Apple, GPH trade new patent complaints through civil suits
updated 12:30 pm EST, Tue November 29, 2011
Civil suits add to ITC complaint
Apple and Graphics Properties Holdings are exchanging new civil suits as part of their ongoing legal battle, according to AppleInsider. Apple filed two patent infringement complaints against GPH earlier this month through Los Angeles lawfirm O'Melveny & Myers. The details of the allegations, though, have not been made public.
GPH last week returned fire with a suit of its own, charging Apple with violating three patents. These include Display System Having Floating Point Rasterization and Floating Point Framebuffering, Large Area Wide Aspect Ratio Flat Panel Monitor Having High Resolution for High Information Content Display, and Data Processing System for Processing One and Two Parcel Instructions. The patents were first applied for the in the 1990s; two were granted to Silicon Graphics, GPH's former incarnation, while the third was assigned to Cray Research.
Silicon Graphics actually sued Apple over the framebuffering patent in November 2010. The new lawsuits come on top of a recent International Trade Commission complaint, which was directed not just at Apple but HTC, LG, RIM, Samsung, Sony, and Sony Ericsson.
