Apple vs. Samsung rages on as core iPhone patent is ruled invalid<article>
<section class="page">
<p>One of Apple’s iPhone patents—the one that a jury used to decide that Samsung owed Apple hundreds of millions of dollars in damages—was just ruled invalid by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.</p><p>The patent in question, D618677, covers the design of the iPhone 3G and was filed in November 2008, but Apple relied on two patents filed in January 2007 to give that 2008 patent an earlier protection date. It’s a common practice, but the earlier patents have to sufficiently describe the later one in order to extend the protection date. The U.S. patent office decided that those two original patents didn’t describe the design patented in late 2008 sufficiently enough, and that perhaps that patent should have never been issued to begin with, according to
FOSS Patents.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2972324/apple-phone/apple-vs-samsung-rages-on-as-core-iphone-patent-is-ruled-invalid.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
Source:
Apple vs. Samsung rages on as core iPhone patent is ruled invalid
