Today, I read an article from earlier this week on Foss
Patents blog about Apple and Samsung. Samsung has had a legal complaint against
Apple for infringing on U.S. Patent No. 7,706,348 and the ITC has postponed the
ruling to May 31 of this year. The patent in question deals with “an apparatus
and method for encoding/decoding transport format combination indicator in CDMA
mobile communication system,” and the diagram included below specifically illustrates
“a block diagram of another embodiment of the TFCI decoding apparatus in the
IMT 2000 system according to the present invention.”
Even though Samsung does have a basis for fighting for
infringement, it is unlikely an import-ban will be issued and unfortunately for
Samsung, many of its past efforts of fighting Apple have failed.
Lastly, I found it pretty interesting that many of the
alleged infringements of Apple products against Samsung are actually on the
older models from Apple, like the iPhone 3, 3GS, and 4, and older iPads, but
most of the newer models don’t even have this technology that is infringing on
patent ‘348. I will expand on this in my Youtube Blog.
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