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Appeals Court Reinstates Apple's $120 Million Slide-To-Unlock Patent Win Over Samsung (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Apple Inc. won an appeals court ruling that reinstates a patent-infringement verdict it won against Samsung Electronics Co., including for its slide-to-unlock feature for smartphones and tablets. In an 8-3 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said a three-judge panel was wrong to throw out the $119.6 million verdict in February. Instead, it ordered the trial judge to consider whether the judgment should be increased based on any intentional infringement by Samsung. In this case, Apple claimed that Samsung infringed patents for the slide-to-unlock feature, autocorrect and a way to detect phone numbers so they can be tapped to make phone calls. The bulk of the award, $98.7 million, was for the detection patent that the earlier panel said wasn't infringed. The February decision also said the other two patents were invalid. That was a wrong decision, the court ruled Friday, because it relied on issues that were never raised on appeal or on information that was beyond the trial record. "The jury verdict on each issue is supported by substantial evidence in the record," Circuit Judge Kimberly Moore wrote for the majority.
I don't even know what it means. I hear it on TV and movies often lately.
They might as well flip a coin.
Aren't you excited. It's a safe assumption that you pulled your head off your own cock long enough to make this post. Do you also sleep next to a jiz covered Steve Job's pillow, and is there a Steve Job's poster on your wall setup as a shrine, that you've also jizzed over...
Stop and think for a moment.. what purpose did this press release serve? Why would the FBI inform the public that they have an iPhone that they cannot unlock? Governments like to maintain a feeling of superiority and they can't do that while, at the same time, admitting mistakes or inadequacies. This press release was designed to show the FBI as a victim. What purpose does this "playing the victim" serve.. except to hopefully pluck at the heartstrings and gain the attention of people (read "voters") that can actually change the law in the FBI's favor?
Do you see what's really happening here? They're not trying to unlock an iPhone, they're trying (again) to gain sympathy from an unsuspecting public in order to change the law. They know that a court order forcing Apple to comply is a waste of time, been there.. done that.. it didn't work. Now, they're trying to change public opinion.
What they don't seem to understand is that, if they can easily get into the iPhone system, criminals will stop using iPhones. When was the last time the government had this kind of difficulty getting into an Android phone?
What ever happened to good old-fashioned detective work?
"Instead, it ordered the trial judge to consider whether the judgment should be increased based on any intentional infringement by Samsung. "
$120m x 4 (3x punative) = $480m
+ otherwise unjudged infringements
>= $1B
I know! How dare Samsung exist! I'm going to throw out anything made by them right now, so all of my iPhones!
And Apple got rid of swipe to unlock in iOS 10. WTF?
Besides that how can judges rule against each other? I mean, isn't the law the law? Or is it just some thing arbitrary open for arbitrary interpretation?
If it's arbitrary interpretation then it should be invalidated.
Can't wait for the day judges and lawyers are replaced by computers.
How does this verdict align with the one reported earlier today?
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
> "The jury verdict on each issue is supported by substantial evidence in the record," Circuit Judge Kimberly Moore wrote for the majority.
Oh Rubbish. Now take that headline:
BEFORE: "Apple Appeals Court Reinstates Apple's $120 Million Slide-To-Unlock Patent Win Over Samsung"
AFTER: "AMERICAN APPEALS COURT Reinstates AMERICAN COMPANY'S Apple's $120 Million Slide-To-Unlock AMERICAN Patent Win Over KOREAN COMPANY Samsung"
When American companies step outside off American soil and try and launch patent suits overseas they almost always fail. Look at some of the patents that trolls like Apple have been celebrating in the US, but when they tried to do the same with patents in Europe and Asia they lost. American patent juries are notoriously biased towards American companies. That's how the whole East Texas Patent Troll County thing came about: Companies knew the judges and juries would give them the result they wanted. The courts can dress it up however they like, but the judicial bias in East Texas has been terrible: https://www.google.com/search?... https://www.law.umich.edu/cent...
My Challenge to Crapple: Contest that same patent in Korea and see how far you get.
Should all burn.
The iphone starting from iOS10 doesn't slide to unlock anymore!!
READY.
PRINT ""+-0
Great! Now Apple can restore slide to unlock to iOS 10.0.x.
#worstupgadeever
Stupid patents. Sliding locks have been around since Roman days, and Apple didn't invent auto-correct nor Intellisense.
Table-ized A.I.
Title says it.
Samsung: Feel The Burn Now?
Feel the burn. He He!
Keep on doin' what chur doin'.
Love,
-Tim
Wait, I thought a judge abolished software patents? I thought that precedent makes software patents as good as dead?
Apple is a patent troll. They really hurt both the market and innovation with their practices. Buying from them is bad for humanity's future.
None of that deserves a patent.
I'm surprised a "method to alert the user that a call is incoming" isn't on the list.
Where did they get the tech from in the first place?
Politicians received monies to have advanced tech created in China.
How is the FBI going to ask China for the password & crypto_info?
>Apple is just but hurt
So they are hurt even though they are a just company?
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
RE; What ever happened to good old-fashioned detective work?
I don't know. Why don't you do some and find out?
Samsung's new unlock screen will feature dragging a bucket of water icon over a burning Note 7 icon.
Table-ized A.I.
I can't think of a better example
It's a good thing that they hose down that mausoleum daily.
Interesting theory, but I don't understand how it's supposed to work. Are you saying that your phone would only work with certain types of headphones, or something? What exactly would Apple prevent here? No-one was copying music via the headphone jack, it's not exactly a pathway that needs any copy protection on it. When people want to copy MP3s, they just press Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V.
in the home market. Samsung and other manufacturers should start suing the shit out of Apple, Motorola etc. in their own markets, to play the same game the U.S. does.
What a useless thing. What is boils down to is finger interaction with a touch sensitive screen to preform an action on a phone, in this case slide to unlock.. How is a finger sliding to unlock, any different to sliding a finger to get the next page in an ebook, sliding the finger on Tinder, sliding a finger to draw a pattern to unlock, sliding a finger to bring up another screen. The USA sure allows some stupid patents
Pocket Dialing, how many times have you pocket dialed, or received a pocket dial? Blame it all on the slide to unlock feature.
After my pocket dialing episode ~5 years ago, I switched to pattern unlock on my Andriod phone (NO more packet dials). It's also helped a couple of times retrieving my misplaced phone. Definiitly reduces desiriblity for the finder to keep a lost or misplaced phone.
You might be being sarcastic, but you make a good point. They don't have a right to exist. The idea that you can force licensing tech by stealing it and then agreeing to a licensing fee is corporate attempted murder. Every manager in the company, from the CEO to retail should be stripped of the right to have a leadership role for 30 years. Make them work for minimum wage, and use them as an example so other companies employees speak up else they too start bagging groceries.
Used slide to unlock.
It's a bit of an ugly brick powered by AA batteries but even used the words "Slide to unlock" and translated for EFIGS (English, French, Italian, German and Spanish).
FCC ID: https://fccid.io/LF58840 for 2001 model.
Couldn't find any vidoes.
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You don't even have top slide to unlock any more, why do they care?
man its hard to keep up with this stupid shit anymore. i mean it goes on and on over the most silly of little feature.
cant they just both admit that they both make smart phones and we have reached peak smart phone, so theyre all gonna look the same.