{"id":29945,"date":"2012-08-24T17:48:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T23:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/24\/apple-wins-big-against-samsung-at-least-in-this-case.html"},"modified":"2012-08-24T17:48:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T23:48:20","slug":"apple-wins-big-against-samsung-at-least-in-this-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/24\/apple-wins-big-against-samsung-at-least-in-this-case.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple wins big against Samsung. At least in this case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of course, we just had a big "You're both infringing" decision from a South Korean courtroom, too. \u00a0And reading through some details of the case, I find a lot of the decision-making just doesn't pass the bellylaugh test. Though, to be fair to the jury, that may just show how incredibly screwed up our patent system is, rather than their judgment within it. (Double-tapping to zoom is patentable? Really?)<\/p>\n

I'm sure we'll see more about this, and were I Apple I wouldn't be spending any of that billion dollars yet.<\/p>\n

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Of course, we just had a big "You're both infringing" decision from a South Korean courtroom, too. \u00a0And reading through some details of the case, I find a lot of the decision-making just doesn't pass the bellylaugh test. Though, to be fair to the jury, that may just show how incredibly screwed up our patent … Continue reading “Apple wins big against Samsung. 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