Tag: Samsung
Unwired Planet, International Chaos
Late last August, the UK Supreme Court issued a ruling in Unwired Planet permitting UK courts to assert jurisdiction over worldwide rate-setting in standard-essential patent (SEP) disputes. I predicte...
Comments from Samsung Jurors Drive Home The Flaws In Design Patents
A few weeks back, I outlined some of the problems created when design patent law is interpreted in negative ways. One particular issue? The negative incentives created if the article of manufact...
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 ...
Apple v. Samsung, Round Six
A district court trial. A retrial, after part of the verdict was vacated. An appeal to the Federal Circuit. A Supreme Court opinion with a remand to the Federal Circuit. A remand from the Fede...
Samsung Takes Over As The Largest Recipient Of U.S. Patents
According to recently released data from IAM/ktMine, Samsung is now the largest recipient of active U.S. patents in the world.[1. While IBM is the largest single corporation recipient each year, Sam...
New Trial On Design Patent Damages, But A Flawed Test
In the long-running Apple v. Samsung dispute, which has now gone from the trial court to the Federal Circuit to an en banc opinion to the Supreme Court and then back to the Federal Circuit and finally...
Apple v. Qualcomm – Double Dipping and Breaking Promises
Back in January, Patent Progress wrote about lawsuits filed against Qualcomm by the FTC and by Apple. Today, Apple filed an amended complaint against Qualcomm, based in part on new law resulting fro...