The U.S. International Trade Commission, the country’s top trade court, is launching an investigation into allegations by Nvidia that several Samsung cellphones and tablet PCs contain graphics technology that infringes on its patents.

The ITC’s move is in response to a complaint lodged by Nvidia in early September with the ITC and at the U.S. District Court in Delaware.

The ITC has become an increasingly popular place to file patent infringement complaints in recent years because it can move quicker than other courts and, if it finds merit in the complaint, halt imports of the infringing products into the U.S. That can have a much greater immediate impact than civil court cases, which often drag on for years.

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