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Interchangeability is not concept in patent or trademark law that I'm aware of. Do you have a legal citation?

• Tichy 14y ago
  It was an argument in the recent Apple vs Samsung court battle. Samsung's prior art was dismissed, one of the jurors explained that it didn't count because the software of the prior art phone would not run on a modern phone.
  • devcpp 14y ago
    That sounds quite arbitrary, and if anything, it's the first time I've heard about this "principle".
    • jarek 14y ago
      That would be why it's being mocked by mullingitover.
    • pja 14y ago
      It wasn't an argument made in the courtroom, it was an argument made by one of the jurors during their deliberations. Obviously it's completely false: which processor a the program runs on ought to make no difference whatsoever to whether a system including that program infringes a patent. In a just world, this would constitute grounds for an appeal by Samsung all by itself, but I've no idea what the legal position is.