Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) defeated Apple Inc. (AAPL:US)’s bid for a court order barring U.S. sales of some Samsung smartphones that were found to infringe Apple patents in a ruling that may affect a trial over current products.
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, for a second time rejected Apple’s request to ban more than 20 Samsung smartphones, no longer on the market, that were at issue in the companies’ first U.S. patent trial in 2012.
The decision may give Samsung leverage as the world’s top two smartphone makers continue to talk to a mediator about a possible settlement before the companies’ next patent trial, scheduled for March 31, which covers newer devices.
“The real importance of this ruling is what it tells us about Apple’s chances of winning a future injunction against Samsung,” said Brian Love, a professor at Santa Clara University law school. “Right now, those chances don’t look very good.”
In their battle to dominate the worldwide smartphone market, Samsung and Apple have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in legal fees claiming each copied features of the other’s products since Apple initiated the fight in 2011.
Samsung accounted for 28.8 percent of global smartphone shipments in the three months ended Dec. 31, down from 29.1 percent a year earlier, Framingham, Massachusetts-based market researcher IDC said in a Jan. 27 statement. Apple was second with 17.9 percent, IDC said...
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, for a second time rejected Apple’s request to ban more than 20 Samsung smartphones, no longer on the market, that were at issue in the companies’ first U.S. patent trial in 2012.
The decision may give Samsung leverage as the world’s top two smartphone makers continue to talk to a mediator about a possible settlement before the companies’ next patent trial, scheduled for March 31, which covers newer devices.
“The real importance of this ruling is what it tells us about Apple’s chances of winning a future injunction against Samsung,” said Brian Love, a professor at Santa Clara University law school. “Right now, those chances don’t look very good.”
In their battle to dominate the worldwide smartphone market, Samsung and Apple have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in legal fees claiming each copied features of the other’s products since Apple initiated the fight in 2011.
Samsung accounted for 28.8 percent of global smartphone shipments in the three months ended Dec. 31, down from 29.1 percent a year earlier, Framingham, Massachusetts-based market researcher IDC said in a Jan. 27 statement. Apple was second with 17.9 percent, IDC said...
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