Third post of this week- Samsung v Apple

I am going to talk about recent findings by US court on patent cases of Apple v Samsung.
Judge Lucy Koh decided that Samsung's Android-based devices infringed on Apple patent's word recommendation, also known as autocomplete and also decided that Samsung patent on multimedia synchronization invalid. This is significant because it increases the likelihood of Apple winning the upcoming multi patent trial scheduled to start on March 31, 2014.

They both started with 5 patents each back in 2012, but as Lucy Koh declared, Samsung is now down to 4 patents while Apple is still asserting 5 patents. Just as previous outcome, this is clearly good news for Apple because they don't have to defend the validity of the autocomplete patent at the spring trial, most likely. Lucy Koh stated that it was clear that Samsung infringed on Apple's autocomplete patent that Jury didn't need to even evaluate whether or not there was infringement.

This is a big news for all the smartphone manufacturers as well as Google because they may also be liable for this autocomplete patent. Also, Samsung's multimedia synchronization method and device patent was dismissed on the basis that they bought this patent back in September of 2011 to counterclaim Apple's litigation.

This seems like a good news for Apple, while it's not such a good news for Samsung or other Android phone makers including Google. It seems that they have came a long way to date, and we may see another big decision in upcoming March. It seems though that Apple has advantage as of now as they have 5 patent assertions while Samsung has only 4.

http://www.fosspatents.com/2014/01/us-court-finds-samsung-to-infringe-one.html