“On Wednesday, US Federal District Court Judge Lucy Koh ruled on two motions in the ongoing leftover matters related to the first Apple vs. Samsung patent trial from 2012,” Electronista reports.
“The first ruling denied Apple the opportunity to recover attorney’s fees from Samsung related to its guilty verdict on trade dress claims, and the second returned a $2.6 million Apple bond the company had put up to enforce a sales injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1, which was found to have copied Apple’s iPad technology,” Electronista reports. “Apple and Samsung recently agreed to drop all non-US patent disputes, which leaves both companies free to pursue appeals to the first and second Apple-Samsung trials.
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“Apple’s bid to make Samsung pay US$16 million for attorney fees it racked up in the 2012 trial accusing the electronics maker of copying the iPhone’s design was shot down by Federal Judge Lucy Koh this week,” Jeff Gamet writes for The Mac Observer. “The Judge said one of the reasons Samsung doesn’t need to cover Apple’s attorney costs was because the iPhone’s design wasn’t famous before the copycat devices were made.”
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MacDailyNews Take: “Judge Koh blocks Apple attempt to recover attorney fees from Samsung.” Of course she did.
It’s okay, though: Tim Cook will finally trigger the real detonator on September 9th. Sleep tight, slavish copier.
And, BTW, there has been no product more famous than Apple’s iPhone during the run up between its unveiling in January 2007 and the absolutely crazy launch days around the world starting in June 2007 and beyond. iPhone has been the epitome of “famous” since the moment Steve Jobs unveiled it.
Apple’s products came first, then Samsung’s:
Here’s what Google’s Android looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
Here’s what cellphones looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]
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Apple, Samsung agree to end patent suits outside U.S. – August 6, 2014
