The Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously reversed and remanded a lower court's ruling that said Samsung must pay Apple $399 million as a penalty for infringing on Apple's smartphone patents.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered the 8-0 opinion handing Samsung a partial win on Tuesday, as the case is headed back to a lower court.
The high court held that the federal circuit erred by defining "article of manufacture" in a way that benefited Apple, as it required Samsung to pay penalties as if its entire phone were based on designs stolen from Apple. The Supreme Court's decision reversed that to Samsung's benefit, by saying a smaller penalty can be assessed if only some components of the products design were stolen.
At issue in Samsung v. Apple were Apple's iPhone design patents for the mobile phones' rectangular shape and rounded corners with a certain graphical on-screen design.
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Apple will continue to release old tech in a fancy package as always.
ReplyDeleteSeriously? You call making a square with rounded corners a new design feature? Something that could never have been done by anyone else ever? That is ridiculous, no wonder this country is gone to shit... You are fighting over what something looks like, not how it functions...
ReplyDeleteSo if this is the case, then I came up with the color blue and I should be able to sue every person who has blue on? or the company who make a blue shirt? A blue car? Blue toothbrush? Go the fuck back to the stone age and we won't have to worry about this crap...
On a side note I find it funny how apple who steals features form google, then tries to sue the manufactures who put Android on their phones, and try to sue them for the features they stole...
My phone is flat and has a camera on the upper left, and I should be able to patent that. Lol!
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