Samsung Infringe Apple Patents; US Judge Lucy Koh

Saad Riaz Qazi

NUST

According to Lucy Koh, a US judge, Samsung has infringed Apple’s iPad’s patents by their tablets. Interestingly she added that Apple Inc. might face a problem for establishing the validity of these patents. These comments came on Thursday in a hearing where Apple requested to ban the sale of some Samsung products in the US.

From the beginning of the production of Samsung smartphones Apple has been in competition with the company. Earlier the same day an Australian court temporarily banned Samsung’s latest tablet from sale. Also Apple sued Samsung before in April saying that the Galaxy smartphones and tablets were mere copies of the iPhone and the iPad.

Though the various network providers are against Apple in this but Apple still has to prove the validity of its patents. The US judge also said that she would deny Apple’s request based on its “utility” patents. Although she did not mention anything about the “design” patents Apple still would face a problem to approve its appeal from the US court.