Apple loses UK copyright appeal against Samsung

Apple lost a British court appeal today against a ruling that Samsung’s Galaxy tablet is not “cool” enough to be confused with the iPad.

The US tech giant had challenged a High Court judgment in July that South Korea’s Samsung did not infringe Apple’s registered design and that consumers were not likely to confuse the rival devices.

A panel of three British judges at the Court of Appeal in London dismissed Apple’s bid to overturn the decision.

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“Because this case (and parallel cases in other countries) has generated much publicity, it will avoid confusion to say what this case is about and not about,” Robin Jacob, senior Judge said in the ruling.

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Apple's attempt to ban Samsung Android phones pended till December

The judge in the US Apple-Samsung case has set a December date for a hearing in which Apple will argue for the banning of eight or more Samsung Android smartphones.

Lucy Koh will hear Samsung and Apple's arguments on 6 December, she reportedly said late on Tuesday. A hearing had already been set for 20 September, but that will now be taken up by Samsung's attempt to have a ban lifted on its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet.

Koh granted Apple a temporary injunction against the tablet before last week's verdict, but the jury then only found Samsung's smartphones to be infringing on Apple's patents.

As for the meat of that verdict — the $1.05bn in damages that Samsung has to pay Apple for past infringements — Samsung has filed to have that put on hold while the court decides on its appeal.

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Apple may ask for banning 8 Samsung smartphones

In the wake of its patent trial victory against Samsung Electronics Co., Apple has given a U.S. federal judge a list of eight Samsung products it wants pulled from store shelves and banned from the U.S. market, including popular Galaxy model smartphones.

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh asked for the list after a jury in San Jose last week slammed Samsung with a $1.05 billion US fine, finding that the South Korean technology giant had "willfully" copied Apple's iPhone and iPad in creating and marketing the products. Samsung plans an appeal.

The products Apple wants off the market are all smartphones:

• Galaxy S 4G
• Galaxy S2 AT&T
• Galaxy S2
• Galaxy S2 T-Mobile
• Galaxy S2 Epic 4G
• Galaxy S Showcase
• Droid Charge
• Galaxy Prevail

Koh on June 26 banned the Galaxy Tab 10.1 from the U.S. market after finding it likely violated a "design patent." Samsung is now asking for that ban to be lifted after the jury found the computer tablet didn't infringe that particular patent, but it did find it infringed three of Apple's software patents that cover the popular "bounce-back" and pinch-to-zoom features.

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If Google Loses the Oracle Battle, the Internet Will Never Be the Same

A jury on Monday turned in the first big verdict in the high-stakes dispute over intellectual property between Google and Oracle. Unfortunately it didn’t do much to resolve the conflict, failing to rule on a key point that would give either party a clear victory.

Briefly, the jury found that Google infringed on Oracle’s copyrights over Java code — which serves as a basis for a big chunk of Android — but didn’t rule at all on whether or not Google’s actions could be considered “fair use.” 

The judge in the case, U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup, has said he’ll make a further ruling that will address that point and potentially alter the outcome with a final decision on whether software APIs (application programming interfaces) can be copyrighted.

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