Apple Inc.’s Mac OS X computer system violates patents held by S3 Graphics Co., while the platform for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad tablet doesn’t, a U.S. agency said in a July 1 ruling made public today.
Mac computers have an operating system that infringes two S3 patents related to graphics chips, U.S. International Trade Commission Judge James Gildea said. Notice of the ruling was disclosed July 1 without explaining which products were in violation. Additional information was released today.
