“Apple has moved swiftly to appeal a federal judge’s ruling earlier this week rejecting the iPhone maker’s bid for a ban on U.S. sales of Samsung smartphones found to have violated the Cupertino company’s patent rights.,” Howard Mintz reports for The San Jose Mercury News.
“In a brief court filing Friday, Apple revealed that it will appeal U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh’s denial of a permanent injunction on the Samsung products,” Mintz reports. “The issue will be reviewed by the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, a Washington, D.C.-based court that handles patent appeals.”
“A federal jury in May hit Samsung with $120 million in damages for copying iPhone technology in nine Samsung smartphones, such as the Galaxy S3,” Mintz reports, “although the panel rejected many of the patent claims and dramatically reduced the damage award Apple was seeking.”
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MacDailyNews Take: The legal system is too slow and, therefore, regardless of the outcome of Apple’s appeals, has already failed miserably.
An iPhone with a larger screen option will hurt Samsung immeasurably more than myriad, unending traipses through the legal morass. – MacDailyNews, May 2, 2014
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