Apple loses bid to block sales of 9 Samsung phones
A federal judge has rejected Apple’s attempt to block the sale of several older Samsung smartphones that copied features in the iPhone.
Wednesday’s rebuff comes nearly four months after a jury awarded Apple Inc. $119 million in damages for Samsung’s infringements on technology used in the trend-setting iPhone.
Apple wanted US District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, to issue an order that would have prevented future US sales of nine Samsung phone models that infringed on the iPhone technology.
The patents covered the auto-correction feature in the iPhone’s keyboard, the method to create links for email addresses and phone numbers appearing in text and the swiping gesture for unlocking the phone’s display screen.
Apple had wanted to ban the US sale of these Samsung models: the Admire, Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S II, Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch, Galaxy S II Skyrocket, Galaxy S III, and Stratosphere. All
Samsung also has sued Apple, and prevailed in one of its patent claims in the most recent trial. The jury awarded Samsung just $158,400 for Apple’s infringement.
The two companies recently settled all their patent disputes outside the US, but are still bickering here. The verdicts from May and 2012 are still under appeal.
Source: economictimes
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