Post #31: Preliminary ITC ruling in Apple's favor against Samsung will be reviewed thoroughly

Preliminary ITC ruling in Apple's favor against Samsung will be reviewed thoroughly

http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/05/preliminary-itc-ruling-in-apples-favor.html?m=

Last October, it was ruled that Samsung infringed on 4 of Apple's patents; three of which were utility patents with the fourth being a design patent. After this there was a request for an additional review to verify these rulings in which it was found that Android additional violations by Android's text selection feature. 

This week it was decided that the commission will review on all of these cases and decide by August 1st, 2013. The review will concerned the following patents:

•  '949 touchscreen heuristics patent
•   RE'922 translucent images patent
•  '697 plug detection patent
•  '501 plug detection patent
•  D'678 smartphone design patent

It is noteworthy that the commission said they would review the cases in their entirety and not as separate issues which implies it will be a much more binary case, instead of a few patents going to one side and a few going to another. 

Bottom Line:

In reference to the patent wars this is exactly what we don't want to see. It has become very typical for these cases to drag on for over a year and have several appeals involved. Additionally, when the ITC has to meet up again to review its previous decisions it just lends to a lot of wasted resources and time for all parties. It is clear here we need to reform our patent system given whenever a final ruling is handed down it is rare that the ruling is actually final.

YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FLGEH6ofmw