Apple Denied Permanent Ban on Samsung Smartphones
U.S. judge denies Apple's attempt to apply sales ban on 26 Samsung devices.
A U.S. judge has denied Apple's request to ban numerous Samsung's devices from sale in the U.S.
Presiding over the week-long trial between the two technology giants, judge Lucy Koh denied Apple's bid for a permanent sales injunction on 26 Samsung products. She said that any infringing features were simply part of a larger feature set, consequently meaning a sales ban would be too broad.
"The phones at issue in this case contain a broad range of features, only a small fraction of which are covered by Apple's patents," Koh said. "Though Apple does have some interest in retaining certain features as exclusive to Apple, it does not follow that entire products must be forever banned from the market because they incorporate, among their myriad features, a few narrow protected functions."
A California jury had said back in August that 26 of Samsung's mobile devices infringed on several Apple patents, which saw the latter being awarded over $1 billion in damages -- a ruling that Samsung disputed due to alleged bias from the judge.
Although infringements were found, Koh explained in her ruling that a considerable proportion of the devices in question are no longer on sale, with those that were sported other features.
"It would not be equitable to deprive consumers of Samsung's infringing phones when, as explained above, only limited features of the phones have been found to infringe any of Apple's intellectual property," she added.

Meh.
But hell no. Apple's acting a sore winner, retard. I can never root for Apple. Apple is making me for root Samsung that's located half way a cross the world.
Look what you make me do, Apple. Stop acting like a horse's behind. Instead of paying lawyers, why don't you pay a little better to FoxConn, so they can improve working condition and pay a little better. "O no" whining bitching execs like Tim Cook at Apple said. We got to eliminate competition by way of banning their products, not competing.
In response to this beat-down Apple coughs up its claim it owns the 'Too Broad' patent.
Actually, Samsung has a campus in Mountain View. Also, they do flash/memory fab here in the states instead of outsourcing everything. In some respects, Samsung is more of the home team compared to Apple.
Judge: "Yeah, blah blah...DENIED!!!"
suing people over useless patients?
They will be swapping settlements back and forth for years to come. Nothing will come of it and only the lawyers (and the consumer) will win.