FOSS Patents is reporting that Apple received two more favourable rulings in their ongoing battle against Samsung in the courts. These judgements increase the chance of Apple winning the March patent trial “not hugely but significantly”, according to Mueller.
In a judgement filed yesterday, Samsung was found to infringe on one of Apple’s asserted patents and one of its own patents in the case was invalidated.
Samsung was found to infringe on patent no 8,074,172, covering autocomplete technology. The wording of the claim is as follows:
Mueller speculates that a victory on this patent could have ramifications for other Android manufacturers, as the claim is likely to apply to other devices besides Samsung.
The Samsung patent Judge Koh threw out is patent no 7,577,757, which relates to a method of synchronizing media content to devices. Apple convinced the court that Samsung’s patent must be disregarded because the synchronization patent was filed after the dispute with Apple had begun, in September 2011, alleging that Samsung’s sole intent was to use it to sue.
