Samsung Beats Apple In Tokyo, Itching To Sue Over LTE Patents

Posted by Soulskill on Friday August 31, 2012 @01:35AM from the one-for-you-one-for-me-one-for-you-one-for-me dept.

AmiMoJo writes "A court in Tokyo has ruled that Samsung Electronics did not infringe on a patent relating to transferring media content between devices. Tokyo District Judge Tamotsu Shoji dismissed the case filed by Apple in August, finding that Samsung was not in violation of Apple patents related to synchronizing music and video data between devices and servers." This particular battle is just one front in a patent war that spans ten countries and dozens of cases. Samsung also confirmed it was ready and willing to sue Apple if an LTE iPhone ever hits the market. Meanwhile, Apple was granted a number of new patents on Tuesday, including one for changing settings on a wireless device depending on its location (#8,254,902). For example, sound and light from the device could be disabled when entering a movie theater, or communications with other devices could be disabled in a science laboratory.

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Re:Disabling features based on location e.g. Cinem by Wovel · 2012-08-31 02:16 · Score: -1, Flamebait

It is cute when people think things that are completely unrelated serve as prior art. Your example is like saying Barney the Dinosaur is prior art to my Purple Popsicle patent.
Re:Is this over the same patents? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-31 02:26 · Score: -1, Flamebait

For fuck sake, give up this "the jury fucked up" narrative. It's really immature.
Furthmore, you should not be cheering Samsung on for attempting to leverage what should be FRAND licensed pattens for a global communication standard. This move is just desperate on Samsung's part, and if Samsung wins in the end it will have FAR worse effects on the industry than any spat over Apple's design patents and trade dress.