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Title: Court reinstates $120 million patent award for Apple in Samsung case Post by: HCK on October 11, 2016, 04:05:13 pm Court reinstates $120 million patent award for Apple in Samsung case
<article> <section class="page"> <p>A U.S. appeals court has reinstated a $119.6 million award for Apple in a long-running smartphone design patent dispute with rival Samsung.</p><p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Friday (http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions-orders/15-1171.Opinion.9-30-2016.1.PDF) that two Apple smartphone design patents, one related to a slide-to-unlock feature (https://www.google.com/patents/US8074172), are valid and Samsung infringed a third patent related to helping smartphone users find phone numbers.</p><p>The case goes back five years, when Apple first filed a series of patent lawsuits (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electronics_Co.) against Samsung, alleging infringement of several Apple's iPhone design patents.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3129283/mobile/court-reinstates-120m-patent-award-for-apple-in-samsung-case.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Court reinstates $120 million patent award for Apple in Samsung case (http://www.macworld.com/article/3129283/mobile/court-reinstates-120m-patent-award-for-apple-in-samsung-case.html#tk.rss_all) |