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Ban on Certain Samsung Products Appears Likely ITC Ruling

Posted by timothy on from the king-solomon-at-work dept.

Ars Technica reports that "On Friday the ITC filed a redacted version of a remedy suggested by ITC Administrative Law Judge Thomas Pender, in which he recommended a ban be enforced against Samsung products that were found to infringe upon four Apple patents. The judge also recommended that Samsung post a bond for 88 percent of the value of its infringing mobile phones, as well as 32.5 percent of the value of infringing media players, and 37.6 percent of the value of infringing tablets." That sounds like a clear loss for Samsung, but the judge "also approved several workarounds suggested by Samsung that might permit the company to continue selling the implicated products (which include the Transform, Acclaim, Indulge and Intercept smartphones, according to Computerworld). These workarounds would sidestep infringing on Apple's four patents—which include one design patent and three technology patents." Ruling and remedy have yet to be approved by the panel whose word would make them final.

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  1. Sweet! by Greyfox · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now if we can ban all other products that infringe on all other patents, our transformation can be complete and we can finally move back into caves!

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    I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?

    1. Re:Sweet! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, no, no, it would be

      • iEating - while iLiving in a iCave
      • iSleeping - while iLiving in a iCave
      • iPainting on the iWalls - while iLiving in a iCave

      which are obviously and clearly innovative. All the one you cited have prior art.

    2. Re:Sweet! by AmiMoJo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Just burn the building down. It would be like the opposite of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

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      SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
  2. The legal department is more important than R& by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe your R&D department can cook up some great new products. But if there is even the slightest crack anywhere in them, where a patent lawyer can jam a crowbar into . . . you might as well forget it. Your legal costs would be more than the entire R&D cost of the project.

    So I wonder now how companies plan development projects these days?

    Executive: "What will you need to develop this new product?"

    Manager: "80 programmers, 20 management & support, . . . and . . . 1000 lawyers.

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  3. Re:Presumption of *invalidity* by fredprado · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That would work if justice wasn't so damn ridiculously expensive. As it is nobody who is not a big corporation can afford the legal costs. Being right makes no difference.