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Authored by: AntiFUD on Monday, December 03 2012 @ 08:43 PM EST |
While the '677 design patent appears as part of Apple's initial Complaint, I was
unable to find any reference to the '087 design patent ...
Until I opened the 1425.pdf "ORDER REGARDING DESIGN PATENT CLAIM
CONSTRUCTION" in which Judge Koh determined that the '677 included 'solid
black surface shading, which according to MPEP '[is] used to represent the color
black' ...
So now we know - it's all there in black and white (or should that be not
necessarily black) - otherwise the two design patents could be identical, IF you
are color-blind or not color-prejudiced.
I am not sure (yet) when the issue of the two design patents being essentially
the same arose. Since Samsung is raising it in their JMOL then I assume that it
became an issue during the trial if it wasn't part of Samsung's argument
concerning the 'claim construction' mentioned above.
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IANAL - Free to Fight FUD - "to this very day"
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Authored by: PJ on Monday, December 03 2012 @ 11:22 PM EST |
The '087 and '677 patents are named as infringed in Apple's trial
brief: "Samsung's products infringe Apple's D'677 and D'087 iPhone design
patents; D'889 tablet design patent; and D'305 iPhone GUI design patent."
Samsung's trial
brief [PDF] doesn't raise the issue of duplication. I don't know what
happened at the trial on this, because we started covering this case only after
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