“Apple urged a U.S. appeals court to force Samsung Electronics to stop copying certain features of the iPhone,” Susan Decker reports for Bloomberg News. “A federal jury last year said Samsung was using Apple’s patented features for autocorrect, slide-to-unlock and quick links. The judge in the case refused to order Samsung to remove those features, saying there was no evidence they drove sales of smartphones so Apple should instead be compensated with money.”
“This case and one other are all that’s left of a four- continent battle that’s engulfed the world’s biggest smartphone makers for the past four years,” Decker reports. “In December, Samsung asked the Washington appeals court to toss a $930 million verdict won by Apple. That appeal is still pending, as is the underlying infringement finding and $120 million damage award in this case.”
“Patents give their owners the exclusive right to the invention. Without the ability to block sales of rival products using the invention without paying, the patent’s value is decreased,” Decker reports. “Lee said that a Samsung victory on this issue would preclude any patent owner from obtaining an order to stop use of its inventions… A victory for Samsung would amount to forcing Apple to accept a compulsory license of its inventions, said Nick Rodelli, senior analyst at CFRA, a New York-based-based forensic accounting and legal research firm.”
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MacDailyNews Take: The clusterfsck continues. Everyone on the planet can plainly see what Samsung has done for years and continues to do to this day, unless they have on a judge’s robe, it seems.
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