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...The US Department of Justice has weighed in on the patent battle between Apple and Samsung Electronics, recommending the Supreme Court send the case back to lower courts to reassess the appropriate amount...
...The decision by the top court also gives renewed hope to Samsung as the South Korean electronic group seeks to reduce the damages of $548m it agreed to pay Apple after losing a series of appeals in patent...
...The Korean electronics company is making a last-ditch effort to overturn a ruling that it says applies patent law too broadly and could impede competition in the technology market by awarding “excessive”...
...A similar principle was established for utility patents by the Supreme Court in the case of Markman v Westview Instruments in 1996....
...This also supports custom gestures, such as sliding diagonally on the home screen to open the camera or make a phone call, or drawing a V to turn on the flashlight....
...The Lees’ direct holding in group flagship Samsung Electronics is just 4.7 per cent....
...(FT) In the news Samsung mobile revenues sink Earnings contracted sharply in the final quarter of 2014....
...The PCs and printers, which will be called HP Inc., will focus on more organic investment....
...Apple’s litigation against Samsung was begun under its late co-founder Steve Jobs, who described it as part of a “holy war” against Android, which he saw as slavishly copying the iPhone....
...Basically, another angry reflection of how important rising wages are to Abenomics’ success and how irritated Abe et al are at those big companies refusing to part with the extra yen Abenomics has brought...
...Conversely, companies such as Looxcie and V.I.O. are offering wearable video cameras designed to capture real-time point-of-view video clips....
...Samsung patent litigation...
...Of course, emerging markets companies can always buy international brands rather than develop one from scratch....
...The line up is: Portugal v Sweden, France v Ukraine, Greece v Romania and Iceland v Croatia PlayStation 4 launches Sony launches its PlayStation 4 in the US....
...Samsung is one of them....
...He joined Samsung Electronics in 2006 after stints teaching user experience design at a Seoul university and working at IBM Korea and now oversees all its product categories....
...Davos 2013: WEF report urges Russia to tackle corruption and step up reformBrazil’s monetary jeitinhoLG: ready to give Apple and Samsung a run for their money?...
...“James v UMG Recordings” is a dispute about how much money musicians should receive from digital downloads of their work....
...profit to record Surging mobile handset sales drove earnings at Samsung Electronics to another record in the fourth quarter of last year, despite the competitive threat from Apple’s iPhone 5. http://on.ft.com...
...Apple’s victory over Samsung in the patents dispute shone an interesting light on the murky world of patents....
...Related reading: Samsung v Apple: no more playing nice, beyondbrics S Korea corporates: hard times away from the podium, beyondbrics Succession not just family affair in Asia, FT Lex in depth: Samsung, FT...
...Additional reporting by Song Jung-a Related reading: Samsung/Apple – dynamic rivalry, beyondbrics Samung v Apple: the S Korean verdict, beyondbrics Samsung hits the acquisition trail, beyondbrics Lex in...
...In the second week of Apple v Samsung at a court in San Jose, their patent dispute took a more serious turn, after the titillating revelations of the first week included Apple designs for a 7in iPad, one...
...Samsung The judge who oversaw a San Jose jury’s $1bn award of patent damages to Apple against Samsung on Thursday made a final plea for “global peace” between the two tech giants. http://on.ft.com/VAvHQB...
...It was an incredible time to be working in the patent field given the various rulings, particularly Apple v. Samsung....
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