MicroUnity files suits against 22 top mobile firms

SAN JOSE: MicroUnity Systems Engineering, the former processor startup, based in Santa Clara, California, the United States, has filed a suit alleging that 22 of the top mobile phone companies in the world – including chip, system and service providers – infringed 15 of its patents. In some instances, the suit seeks treble damages, claiming willful infringement.

Those accused in the suit include such major companies as Apple, Acer, Google, LG Electronics, Nokia, HTC, AT&T, Motorola, Samsung, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Sprint.

MicroUnity Systems Engineering accuses the 22 mobile phone companies of infringing products that include Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors, Texas Instruments’ OMAP-3 and -4 processors, Google Nexus One, the Apple iPhone 3GS, Nokia N900 and Palm Pre handsets, and Motorola Droid.

All the patents in question involve specific functions of general-purpose processors or media processors, including specific kinds of load, parallel, caching operations.