Tag: § 289
Jury Decides Icon Patents Should Award Profits On Entire Phone
Yesterday, after almost four days of deliberation, the Apple v. Samsung jury decided Samsung owed Apple over $500 million of Samsung’s profits.
Faced with an artificial and unsound test, the jur...
Icon Patents Shouldn’t Entitle The Patent Owner To Profits On The Whole Device
An important part of the Apple v. Samsung trial is about the exterior casing design patents. But those aren’t the only design patents at issue—the other design patent in the case covers a colorf...
Did You Buy Your Car Just Because Of The Cup Holder?
Opening arguments in Apple v. Samsung started this morning. While round six of the long-running case deals with smartphone patents, the potential impacts range much further. As I noted in ...