Heading into trial before a judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission, the stakes could not have been higher for Qualcomm. Key aspects of its “Snapdragon” chip—what you might call the brains of the Samsung Galaxy smartphone—were alleged to infringe upon seven of graphics giant Nvidia’s patents. If the administrative law judge went in Nvidia’s favor, imports of the Galaxy would be blocked from the U.S. market.
And Nvidia had thrown the book at Qualcomm, with its seven patent assertions encompassing roughly 130 separate patent claims. The prospect of going to trial on all of them was daunting, said Robert Giles and John Scott, in-house counsel at Qualcomm. “We were very overwhelmed with the number of claims that were still being asserted and we still had to prepare for,” said Giles in an interview from San Diego. Scott added: “You ask yourself, when you see a 130-claim complaint, ‘What are the odds of me running the table on all of these claims?’”
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