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Well isn't this a pickle, according to ars the two patents that the judge have been found infridged have been ruled invalid... http://arstechnica.com/apple/new
by bpd1069 15y ago
Well isn't this a pickle, according to ars the two patents that the judge have been found infridged have been ruled invalid...
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/07/itc-judge-says-macs-infringe-s3-patents-but-it-may-not-help-htc.ars http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/07/itc-judge-says-mac...
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[Litigating Apple] noted that on the very same day that an ALJ ruled that Apple infringed two of S3's patents, the USPTO made initial determinations that the relevant claims of the two remaining patents are also invalid due to prior art. Apple can ask the ITC to review the infringement decision in light of the USPTO's invalidation of those patent claims as ipso facto an invalid patent claim cannot be infringed.
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ars's source:
http://www.litigatingapple.com/blog/2011/7/24/why-htcs-courtship-of-s3-might-be-too-clever-by-half.html http://www.litigatingapple.com/blog/2011/7/24/why-htcs-court...
And the soap opera continues.