“Samsung has now officially failed to prevail on 25 standard-essential patent (SEP) assertions against Apple (including eight patents it withdrew and one case that was stayed in Germany because the patent was deemed likely to be invalid). Today Justice Floyd of the Chancery Division of the High Court of England and Wales ruled on three Samsung SEP assertions against Apple and declared all three patents invalid,” Florian Mueller reports for FOSS Patents. “Last week Samsung lost its 22nd SEP assertion against Apple (in Japan; for details on the ruling see this post). Samsung has prevailed on only three of its SEPs (two in Korea, one in the Netherlands). With a hit rate of less than one out of eight it’s still less unsuccessful than Google’s Motorola Mobility, which won only one of its ten SEP cases against Apple.”
“Samsung had sued Apple over three allegedly UMTS-essential patents in the UK,” Mueller reports. “Apple denied these allegations and brought counterclaims for declaratory judgment. Apple’s counterclaims succeeded: Justice Floyd declared all three patents-in-suit invalid (this ruling affects the enforceability of these European patents only in the UK, not in other European jurisdictions).”
“Not only has Samsung lost more than two dozen SEP assertions against Apple but it’s also been unable to enforce any non-SEP anywhere in the world,” Mueller writes. “Justice Floyd appears unlikely to follow in Sir Robin Jacob’s footsteps and work for Samsung as an expert witness in USITC investigations.”
Read more in the full article here.
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Is the MDN Take Editor on vacation? That last line quoted was a nice zinger!
It’s from Foss’s article, not MDN.
Yeah I know that. But MDN is slow on the upTake.
Wow, talk about a manipulative headline. The only thing I read about a UK judge declining Samsung’s job offer was “Justice Floyd appears unlikely to follow in Sir Robin Jacob’s footsteps and work for Samsung as an expert witness in USITC investigations.”
There is no mention anywhere that Justice Floyd was even offered a job by Samsung. Failing to produced such aforementioned job offer by Samsung probably means that the jourANAList is up for the Putzer Prize.
Florian is being sarcastic.
The statement “Justice Floyd appears unlikely to follow in Sir Robin Jacob’s footsteps and work for Samsung as an expert witness in USITC investigations.” appearing well within the article and passing off as sarcasm is fine.
The headline is a totally different matter. There is no context to put it in as sarcasm. I suspect that there was no job offer and therefore no declination by the judge. That makes the headline go a little beyond being misconstrued and into the realm of an outright lie.
Hence, he demonstrates his advanced journANAListic capacity to be a PUTZ so he should be up for the PUTZER prize.
Now if you can determine that Florian Mueller (who I enjoy reading by the way) was being sarcastic in the article we are on the same page. If you can determine that he was being sarcastic in the title, then your ability to determine sarcasm is almost refined to the point where I can share something special with you.
My post was sarcastic. I know, I know, I was pretty subtle and I am sure there are many readers like you who wanted to make a comment but now they won’t have to, thanks to the bravery of your post.
Thanks silverhawk1, I’ve been smiling all through this.
Seriously I still think the headline is a little too misleading, but the article is very well written for such a usually dry topic.
Who knew a German could have that well developed sense of humor.
I heard that everyone laughed at Hitler’s jokes …
I did, but then again, never met a human that did not have some sort of sense of humor, even though it might be totally incomprehensible to others. That’s humanity for you.
Thank you for your honesty Justice Floyd. Robin needs his Sir pulled.
yeah, it would be hissirrectomy.
Job offer??
What job exactly was Justice Floyd offered?
I guess that once there is a headline, people stop reading.
Perhaps BLN, affer his insanely childish & xenophobic rant about ALL British Judges, would like to now apologise for his his inappropriate comments.
At least this Judge is doing his job and not selling out to the wicked snake company StealSung!
“No, no, I do not want to be taxed on my salary if I take the job, just keep paying me under the table, that way, I do not have to report the income, ok, thanks”