Intel gets caught in the middle as Apple and Samsung question baseband processor expert
Samsung began making its case this morning that Apple had infringed two of its standards-essentials patents, but it was Intel that took center stage as Cupertino pointed to the chip manufacturer as its main defense. Tim Williams testified about two of Samsung’s standards-essential patents — the ’941 and ’516 patents — that cover technologies relating to packet transmission and power regulation for data channels on cellular devices. In his research, Williams found that both the iPhone 4 and the 3G variant of the iPad 2 infringed the patents (the features of both patents are incorporated into the 3GPP Release 6 standard, which Apple itself says it supports). Apple raised the Intel defense The problem is Intel. Apple attorney William…
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Intel gets caught in the middle as Apple and Samsung question baseband processor expert
