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Apple v Samsung: Can Look and Feel Be Patented?
It is related to e-reader.
If look and feel can be patented, expect the patent war to come to e-reader. The result of this trial will determine the fate of e-reader and other reading devices like tablets and phones. This basically sum up this whole trial. http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...be-patented#p1 Apple v Samsung: Can Look and Feel Be Patented? Quote:
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Unfortunately the USPTO is a laughing stock and you can patent about anything, whether there is prior art or whether it is a simple shape like a rounded rectangle, hence the mess.
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I thought the case was about both patents and trade dress.
IMO Apple has a very strong case on the trade dress part. The patents, perhaps not so much. |
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I wouldn't call it 'very strong'. It's about evens in the key trials so far. Apple's claim was upheld in Germany, Samsung ducked out of it in Australia, and Apple's claim was thrown out in Netherlands and the UK.
Even in Germany, Samsung got round it with a visually trivial redesign of the tablet rim. Graham |
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Samsung don't seem to be off to a very good start with this Judge, as after she refused to admit some of Samsung's evidence, they leaked it to the media, and apparently admit that they did so in order that the jury could see it, even after the judge ruled against it, having released this statement:
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I don't understand why Apple hasn't patented or copyrighted "blogging" and "surfing." Surely it is obvious that those things also tend to be "magical" and therefore belong to Apple.
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[QUOTE=afv011;2172238] What is most puzzling is that Apple showed in their slides the Sammy F700 as an infringing device (even though it was designed before the iPhone came out)[QUOTE]
Apple's Design patent was filed for in 2004, and granted in 2005. So unless Samsung has something pior to 2005... http://www.google.com/patents?id=6Bs...page&q&f=false |
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