Apple Violate 2 Patents

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Apple found to violate 2 patents

Apple Inc. received a mixed ruling in the patent-infringement case brought by closely held S3 Graphics Co. over a type of chip used to play video games on mobile devices.
Apple violates two S3 patents and was found to not have infringed two others, U.S. International Trade Commission Judge James Gildea said in a notice Friday on the agency's website. The findings are subject to review by the six- member commission, which can block imports of products that infringe U.S. patents.
S3, whose Texture Compression feature is used in Nintendo Co.'s Wii and Sony Corp.'s PlayStation portable gaming systems, claimed Apple was infringing four patents. The Fremont company's image compression technology allows for access to encoded large color and 3-D image files to present lifelike animation in video games.

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