Ondrej Holzman The California Circuit Court already has from Apple and Samsung the final lists of devices and patents that will be at issue in the March trial, which each company or the other is alleged to be infringing. Both sides submitted a list of ten devices, Apple will then be sued for infringement of five of its patents, Samsung has only four...
The final list of devices and patents is considerably narrowed down from the original versions, as Apple and Samsung acceded to the request of Judge Lucy Koh, who did not want the case to be too monstrous. The original 25 patent claims and 25 devices became much shorter lists.
Samsung, however, thanks to Kohová's decision in January, which invalidated one of his patents, will wield only four patents, just like Apple, which has five of them left, but it will also build five patent claims on four patents. In terms of devices, both sides don't like the rival's ten devices, but again, these are not the latest products. The most recent ones are from 2012 and most of them are no longer sold or even manufactured. This just shows the very slow conduct of patent litigation in the United States.
However, the important thing is that any decision, whether it is current or older products, can create a fundamental precedent for future decisions in similar cases and specifically in the case of Apple vs. Samsung.
Apple claims the following patents and the following devices allegedly infringe them:
Patents
- US Pat no. 5,946,647 – System and method for performing actions on a computer generated data structure (claim 9)
- US Pat no. 6,847,959 – Universal interface for obtaining information in a computer system (claim 25)
- US Pat no. 7,761,414 – Asynchronous synchronization of data between devices (claim 20)
- US Pat no. 8,046,721 – Unlocking the device by performing a gesture on the unlock image (claim 8)
- US Pat no. 8,074,172 – Method, system and graphical interface providing word recommendation (claim 18)
Products
- Admire
- Galaxy Nexus
- Galaxy Note II
- Galaxy S II
- Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch
- Galaxy S II Skyrocket
- Galaxy S III
- Galaxy Tab 2 10.1
- Stratosphere
Samsung claims the following patents and the following devices allegedly infringe them:
Patents
- US Pat no. 7,756,087 – Method and apparatus for performing unscheduled transmissions in a mobile communication system to support an improved data channel communication link (claim 10)
- US Pat no. 7,551,596 – Method and device for reporting service control information for packet data of a communication link in a communication system (claim 13)
- US Pat no. 6,226,449 - Apparatus for recording and reproducing digital images and speech (claim 27)
- US Pat no. 5,579,239 - System for remote video transmission (claims 1 and 15)
Products
- iPhone 4
- iPhone 4S
- iPhone 5
- iPad 2
- iPad 3
- iPad 4
- iPad mini
- iPod touch (5th generation)
- iPod touch (4th generation)
- MacBook Pro
The second legal battle between Apple and Samsung is set to break out on March 31st, and it won't happen unless the two sides reach an agreement by then on certain conditions mutual licensing of patents. The bosses of the two companies get along meet by February 19.
