Glacial: Apple v. Samsung heads toward fourth jury trial

“In March or April of 2016, yet another jury will be summoned to federal court in San Jose to weigh in on the long-running dispute between the world’s two biggest smartphone companies,” Joe Mullin reports for Ars Technica.

“It’s the fourth jury trial between Apple and Samsung in US District Judge Lucy Koh’s courtroom, the judge noted in a scheduling order published yesterday,” Mullin reports. “The sole focus of the upcoming trial will be to calculate damages for infringement of Apple’s patents in five Samsung products: the Fascinate, Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S Showcase, Mesmerize, and Vibrant. It’s the second retrial focused solely on damages.”

“The upcoming trial is necessitated by a May decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which wiped out Apple’s damages related to trade dress. In the new trial, a jury will have to make an award based solely on Apple’s infringed patents,” Mullin reports. “Those patents include three design patents, the ‘381 ‘bounce back’ patent, the ‘163 ‘tap to zoom’ patent, and the ‘915 ‘pinch to zoom’ patent.”

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MacDailyNews Take: Justice delayed is justice denied, but, thankfully, if the courts won’t mete out justice unto Samsung, it looks like karma will.

Apple’s owns 92% of smartphone industry’s profits – July 13, 2015

An iPhone with a larger screen option will hurt Samsung immeasurably more than myriad, unending traipses through the legal morass. – MacDailyNews Take, May 2, 2014

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