“Earlier this month lawyers for Apple celebrated a small, but important victory in court,” Parmy Olson reports for Forbes.
“On Aug. 4 they filed a 44-page complaint with the Civil Chamber of the lower court of Dusseldorf, a wealthy city in western Germany,” Olson reports. “The document claimed Samsung had ripped-off the design of the iPad, infringing on its so-called Community Design right, or what you’d call a ‘design patent’ in the United States.”
Olson reports, “About five years ago, the obvious place for patent-holders to sue was a cluster of district court in some tiny, dusty towns in Eastern Texas. Now there’s also Dusseldorf, Germany, where judges are proving themselves quick, competent, and more often than not, erring on the side of the patent holder.”
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