Samsung suffered another setback today in court, as its attempt to seek damages and injunctions against Apple was put down by British Justice Floyd. Samsung has only succeeded on three of its standard-essential patent assertions against Apple out of 25: two of these assertions were declared in South Korea, the location of Samsung's headquarters, and one in the Netherlands.
Samsung's suit was about three patents. Here is a brief outline of the patent's claim and Apple's successful counter suit argument:
- EP1714404 - protocols for reducing power consumption when transmitting data on WDCMA platforms
- This patent was rejected because of the existence of prior art and was seen as "obvious"
- EP1005726 - protocol for pressing data and encoding/decoding in an efficient manner
- This patent was rejected because it was entitled to the priority claimed and was also an "obvious" patent
- EP1357675 - channel coding in CDMA systems
- This patent was rejected on the grounds of not being entitled to the priority claimed and was also obvious
The seemingly-pointless nature of some of these patent suits is also backed up with Samsung's demands for 2.4% royalties on Apple devices.
I also wrote a blog on this topic, I think another critical detail is the German retrial scheduled in July, this is a definite win for Samsung as it buys them more time for litigation
ReplyDeleteIt seems like Samsung is running low on steam in this patent battle with Apple. I wonder if the litigation has actually resulted in enough benefit to off set the costs associated with the lawyers and many court dates.
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