The ITC’s Proposing Some Rough Sanctions Against Patent-Infringing Samsung …
The Apple vs. Samsung battle is trucking along, and this time there’s more bad news for Samsung. Yesterday, a somewhat censored version of presiding Judge Thomas Pender’s suggested sanctions regarding the Apple’s complaint to the ITC was published and it includes not only an import and sales ban on the infringing products, but also the posting of a bond for 88 percent of the value of those phones
The Apple vs. Samsung battle is trucking along, and this time there’s more bad news for Samsung. Yesterday, a somewhat censored version of presiding Judge Thomas Pender’s suggested sanctions regarding the Apple’s complaint to the ITC was published and it includes not only an import and sales ban on the infringing products, but also the posting of a bond for 88 percent of the value of those phones.
There is another way out for Samsung, however. The ruling also leaves Samsung with the option of rolling out redesigns to the affected products’ software that could eliminate the need for a sales ban at all. There’s also the business of Apple’s design patents being “tenatively invalidated” by the USPTO which adds another variable to the equation, but it’s a far cry from actual invalidation or Samsung’s saving grace. Granted, this is all still up in the air, but it’s yet another peice of potential fallout from the unending patent war that doesn’t look good for Samsung. [Foss Patents via CNET]
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