Hello everybody, thanks for checking out my blog. This week, I will be writing about an article I read on Foss Patents blog entitled "Apple Defeats Samsung in California Claim Construction Battle on All Patents but One SEP." It discussed how Apple is in its second litigation case with Samsung in California and apparently is already winning in the claim construction stage of the case. According to Mueller, "Claim construction means that the court defines how certain terms appearing in the asserted claims must be properly understood."
And so far, it's looking like Apple is really on the winning side of these disputes on all patents but one. The patents in question are U.S. Patents 5,666,502; 5,946,647; 7,761,414; and 8,014,760. These patents respectively are related to "graphical user interface using historical lists with field classes," a "system and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data" (the "data tapping" patent), an "asynchronous data synchronization amongst devices," and lastly, the "missed telephone call management for a portable multifunction device," which clearly is a powerful one.
Samsung, on the other hand, really only succeeded with one standard essential patent, which was U.S. Patent No. 7,756,087 dealing with a "method and apparatus for performing non-scheduled transmission in a mobile communication system for supporting an enhanced uplink data channel." They tried to also assert their non-SEP's that include U.S. Patent No. 7,577,757 and U.S. Patent No. 5,579,239 which deal with "multimedia synchronization method and device" and a "remote video transmission system," the second of which they asserted against FaceTime.
Will expand more on this in my Youtube blog.
Having read through all of these recent case rulings, I can't but help think that the patent system in the US had more strict requirements that the cases in court would be less frequent and more quickly ruled on.
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