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17th December 2015, 07:53 | #1 |
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| Supremes to rule on Apple’s rounded rectangle The highest court in the US will finally decide on whether Steve Jobs invented the rounded rectangle and therefore his form business chum Samsung will have to pay $548 million in damages. It will be probably the last battle in the thermo-nuclear war of the rounded rectangle as both sides have admitted that the whole thing was bloody stupid and did not result in either winning. Samsung’s petition must first be accepted for review by the Supreme Court and there are no guarantees that will happen. Samsung paid Apple $548.2 million fulfilling part of its liability stemming from a 2012 verdict for infringing Apple’s patents and copying the iPhone’s look. In its petition to the high court, Samsung said it should not have had to make as much as $399 million of that payout for copying the patented designs of the iPhone’s rounded-corner front face, bezel, and gridded icons. It said that awarding total profits from the sale of its devices with those designs, even if they relate only to a small portion of the phone, allows for “unjustified windfalls” far beyond the inventive value of the patents. “A patented design might be the essential feature of a spoon or rug. But the same is not true of smartphones, which contain countless other features that give them remarkable functionality wholly unrelated to their design,” Samsung told the high court. http://www.techeye.net/business/supr...nded-rectangle |
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