TechVines: Apple v. Samsung: The infringing device scorecard

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Apple v. Samsung: The infringing device scorecard - CNET

Samsung's Galaxy prevail could cost it $57 million in damages.

(Credit: Josh Miller/CNET)

It was a big win for Apple today when a jury in San Jose, Calif., awarded the company $1 billion in damages in its patent lawsuit against Samsung Electronics. The jury also decided that a hefty set of Samsung's Android smartphones violated several of Apple's design and utility patents.

What follows is a list of the contested patents and the devices that were found to infringe.

'381 patent
Besides the "rubber band" effect where a page "bounces" when a user scrolls to the bottom, '381 also includes touch-screen actions like dragging documents and multi-touch capabilities like pinch to zoom and twist to rotate

'915 patent
Also a touch-screen patent, '915 relates to a device capable of distinguishing between a single-touch scroll operation and a multi-touch pinch-to-zoom operation.

'163 patent
You know how you can double-tap a touch screen to enlarge and center portions of Web page, photo, or document? That's what this patent covers.

D '677 patent
Switching to hardware, D '677 relates to the front face of an electronic device, as embodied by the iPhone.

D '087 patent
Similar to D '677, the D '087 patent concerns the general outline or "ornamental" design of a phone.

D '305 patent
Jumping to the user interface, the D '305 patent centers on a grid of rounded square icons against a black background.

For the final patent, D '889, which relates to the industrial design of a tablet computer, the jury found that neither Wi-Fi nor the 4G LTE versions of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 infringed.

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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Apple v. Samsung: The infringing device scorecard - CNET

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