Samsung invokes Alice to challenge two Apple patents<article>
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Samsung Electronics has asked a court in California to hold invalid claims of two Apple patents in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that tightened standards for patentability.</p><p>
A jury ordered Samsung in May to pay Apple about $119 million for infringing the iPhone maker’s patents. The two patents whose validity Samsung is now challenging had figured in the trial.</p><p>
Some Samsung devices were
found to infringe the “slide-to-unlock” patent, also known as the
’721 patent, which describes the motion on an unlock image on phone home screens to unlock a device.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2450980/samsung-invokes-alice-to-challenge-two-apple-patents.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Samsung invokes Alice to challenge two Apple patents
