“Samsung Electronics Co. may end up saving arch nemesis Apple Inc. about $533 million,” Susan Decker reports for Bloomberg.
“That’s how much Apple was told to pay after a jury in February said its iTunes service infringed patents owned by Texas licensing firm Smartflash LLC,” Decker reports. “That’s how much Apple was told to pay after a jury in February said its iTunes service infringed patents owned by Texas licensing firm Smartflash LLC”
Decker reports, “If a review board at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office tosses those patents, it will not only benefit Samsung but also Apple — the company it spent four years battling over smartphone technology on four continents.”
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MacDailyNews Take: The “arch nemisis” who grants it multi-billion-dollar chip fab and display orders every year.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “M J Miller” for the heads up.]
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