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Apple/Samsung Patent Case Returns To Court To Revisit Infringement Damages (macrumors.com)
An anonymous reader quotes MacRumors:
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday reopened a longstanding patent lawsuit related to Samsung copying the design of the iPhone nearly six years ago...according to court documents filed electronically this week... Apple's damages were calculated based on Samsung's entire profit from the sale of its infringing Galaxy smartphones, but the Supreme Court ruled it did not have enough info to say whether the amount should be based on the total device, or rather individual components such as the front bezel or the screen. It will now be up to the appeals court to decide.
Apple last month said the lawsuit, ongoing since 2011, has always been about Samsung's "blatant copying" of its ideas, adding that it remains optimistic that the U.S. Court of Appeals will "again send a powerful signal that stealing isn't right."
Apple last month said the lawsuit, ongoing since 2011, has always been about Samsung's "blatant copying" of its ideas, adding that it remains optimistic that the U.S. Court of Appeals will "again send a powerful signal that stealing isn't right."
Turns out every other phone manufacturer was able to design a phone that looked nothing like the iPhone.
Samsung on the other hand not only made it loos as close as they could, there are internal memos telling them what the engineers had to copy.
So, if this were a book, the other writers would copy the genre (e.g. Ghost Horror), samsung would simply change the font it was written in.
And samsung has a long history of doing this, Apple is not the first nor will they be the last victim of samsung blatant copying
Finger scrolling on a touchscreen --- Stolen from IBM, US Patent 6278443 Kinetic scrolling on a touchscreen -- Stolen from Philips Magnetic connector -- Stolen from Japanese appliance manufacturer Landscape/portrait mode change based on phone orientation -- Stolen from the touchscreen myOrigo phone made in Finland Browser Task switcher look & feel -- Stolen from Nokia Large touchscreen phone idea -- stolen from me http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
That's not mentioning the wholesale lifting of the idea of cell phones, smartphones, and apps from Motorola, Blackberry, and others.
All of this is not only questionable; but more importantly, it is both off topic to this article and lawsuit, but more importantly, it is legally MOOT.
As it says in TFS, the ONLY reason this has been sent back down to a lower court, is that the reviewing court thought that the damages to be paid to Apple needed more "precise" calculation.
Liability, which is always a seperate issue in Civil (tort) law, has already been established.
Samsung lost. So all your whining is nothing but that: The petulant Whining of a sore loser. So, mods, the +5 Insightful rating for the Parent simply points out (once again), the unbridled Apple Hate that manifests itself in Slashdot's asinine and broken "moderation" system.