Samsung Calls on Judge to Halt Apple Retrial
The trial of the century has hit a new, fairly interesting snag. Samsung has called the whole thing into question based on the testimony from the Patent Office which suggests that the pinch-to-zoom feature Apple has been eager to defend may not even be legitimate. The Patent Office's statement regarding patent no. 7,844,915 doesn't invalidate Apple's claim; it is just that the company will need to provide more evidence to support their claims.
Samsung, in response said, "This PTO decision calls into question the entire jury verdict in this trial. During its presentation, Apple made a deliberate decision not to separate the damages between the different asserted patents. Therefore, it will be impossible to determine what allocation of damages belong to the invalid '915 patent versus the other patents. It would be unjust to have damages evaluated and awarded on a patent found to be invalid by the PTO."
The retrial picked up last Tuesday to decide specifically how much Samsung owed Apple, given that a previous jury had already declared that infringement had, in fact, taken place. Regardless of how the jury is swayed this time, next year a new patent trial between the electronics manufacturers will kick off – starting the slap fight all over again.

Only the lawyers are making any money now. There's no way either side will ever see more money than that expended by legal fees.
can't have it both ways people. other than the cost of litigation to enforce a patent i think the patent law works just fine considering all the corporate misdeeds being done on the people who actually invent this stuff.
The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law. Law has not failed--and is not failing. We as a nation have failed ourselves by not trusting the law and by not using the law to gain sooner the ends of justice which law alone serves.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson ~
I agree with you that smartphones wouldn't be what they are today if it wasn't for Apple, but in terms of "advanced" is a whole different issue. Technology advancement isn't a single line, it's a multiple process. Also, Apple didn't invent multi touch so I have no idea why you would assume we wouldn't have multi touch today. They patented the pinch to zoom gesture.
Nothing wrong with stylus technology. No it wouldn't be single touch because mutli touch existed decades before the iphone, If technology went into advancing resistive touch displays, we can have an entirely different game changing screen (capacitive touch screens aren't necessarily better then resistive in every aspect). Let's be honest here, WAP would have evolved into mobile even without Apple from WAP/OMA forums. Same with WiFi and animations.
What I do agree on is that Apple made technology much more simpler to use and without them, the adoption of mobile computing would have taken another 5 years.
Troll but nonetheless, styluses are still used often for fine control, WiFi was automated before the iPhone, and interfaces were improving all the time. Nokia was already working on a device similar to the iPhone at the same time. To make it clear Apple was the first with widespread success of such a device, and was mostly on the Apple bling factor that they spread so much. And before you complain about Apple's intellectual property just remember that they stole the mouse, icons, and GUI from Xerox.
Writing software for mobile phones for 15 years? I guess you either wrote the OS or snake.
I agree smartphone wouldnt be what they are today if it wasn't for LG Prada. Or was it just that technology had advanced enough to use this form factor
Even worse is when people claim Apple copied the Prada because it came out a few months earlier. Never mind that Apple showed prototypes 2 years earlier during the Samsung.
Even worse is when people claim Apple copied the Prada because it came out a few months earlier. Never mind that Apple showed prototypes 2 years earlier during the Samsung.
Can't argue with facts. The Prada was WAY BEHIND the original iPhone. All it had was a fancy brand name.