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Graphics Properties Holdings Inc (GPHI), which basically used to be Silicon Graphics, is suing Apple, claiming the iMac and Mac Pro willfully infringe on of its two floating point rasterization patents (Nos 6,650,327 and 7,518,615) and being willful it wants treble damages. Acer, Toshiba and Nintendo are also named in the suit, which was filed in New York and discovered by Patently Apple. GPHI is the asset management company owned by private investment funds and other institutional investors following the bankruptcy of Silicon Graphics last year. It owns 300 some odd patents used for graphics, computers and displays and is in business to make money by licensing the IP. It recently won an appeal in a case against AMD and ATI's Radeon chip and upheld the validity of the ‘327 patent. GPHI filed another case last week against Gateway, Lenovo, Dell and HP on the same patents.
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