In the second round hearing of Apple V. Samsung with
Judge Lucy Koh Apple has been crushing the battle. All of the claims were for
patent infringements for smartphone systems patents. Four of five of Apple’s standard
essential patents (SEP) claims held up with no problems and only one of Samsung’s
claims held up. SEP usually deals with code that makes one device or system
compatible with another, like making Wi-Fi compatible with every Wi-Fi capable device.
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| Apple beats Samsung |
Apples four winning claims were Patent No. 5,666,502 which “provide solutions for improving speed and efficiency of data entry into user
interface fields," Patent No.
5,946,647 - the famous "data tapping" patent. The last two were dealing with SEM. Patent No.
7,761,414 on "asynchronous data synchronization amongst
devices" and Patent No. 8,014,760 on
"missed telephone call management for a portable multifunction device".
The only thing protecting Samsung’s phones from future injunctions is Patent No.
7,756,087 on a "method and apparatus for performing
non-scheduled transmission in a mobile communication system for supporting an
enhanced uplink data channel." The Samsung
claims that were tossed out were because of the word construction of the claim
and for certain patents trying to be too broad. Apple attempted to add more
infringements to the case, but the Judge Koh did not allow it. Seeing how well
the case was going for Apple, another filing would have put Samsung in more
trouble.
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