“On May 1 and May 7, Apple and Samsung had already dropped some claims against each other from their first California lawsuit (which is scheduled to go to trial on July 30). Further narrowing resulted from summary judgment: one Samsung patent got tossed,” Florian Mueller reports for FOSS Patents. “But all 12 of Samsung’s summary judgment requests were denied.”
“Apple dropped U.S. Patent No. 7,663,607 on a ‘multipoint touchscreen.’The ‘607 patent would be a very powerful hardware patent, but courts tend to be skeptical of its validity, and even if they deem it valid in part, it appears that they tend to narrow its scope,” Mueller reports. “Apple furthermore narrows its trade dress claims. Those relate to the packaging of products. It proposes the dismissal, again without prejudice, of its trade dress allegations against the original 7.0-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab.”
Mueller reports, “After just losing an entire patent on summary judgment, Samsung didn’t want to drop another patent, but it has reduced the number of claims (from its six remaining patents-in-suit) from 15 to 9. Samsung will assert two claims each from three of its patents, and one claim from each of its other three patents.”
More in the full article here.
“…reduced the number of claims (from its six remaining patents-in-suit) from 15 to 9.”
Reading that and trying to make sense of it gave me a headache 😛