LOS ANGELES (AP) — Many of today’s smartphones share identical features, from manageable touchscreens that let users clear a phone with a crack of a finger, to pop-up animations that offer a by-pass to dialing a series or storing it in a digital residence book.
Those similarities are during a core of an array of obvious disputes as Apple and Samsung Electronics sue any other in courts and trade offices around a world.
The companies’ most-recent authorised scuffle all though resolved on Friday, when a California jury found that Samsung copied some of Apple’s smartphone features. The row also resolved that Apple illegally used one of Samsung’s patents in formulating a iPhone 4 and 5.
All told, a jury awarded Samsung $158,400 and Apple $119 million, distant reduction than a $2.2 billion a association sought.
Jurors were systematic to lapse to justice Monday to continue deliberations on a teenager matter that could outcome in a aloft endowment for Apple.
Before last either a companies copied phone technologies, jurors had to cruise several patents. Here’s a demeanour during name patents and a jury’s conclusions:
Official description: System and routine for behaving an movement on a structure in computer-generated data.
What it unequivocally means: In a mobile device, a record described in this obvious is used to arrangement a pop-up menu of options. One example: When we prominence a phone series on a touchscreen and a program gives we a prompt of options.
The jury’s verdict: The jury found that Apple valid Samsung infringed on a obvious opposite several mobile devices, including a Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy S III and Stratosphere.
Official description: Universal interface for retrieval of information in a mechanism system.
What it unequivocally means: This obvious covers a routine that’s identical to a duty of a hunt engine. It enables a mobile device to entrance information from a accumulation of locations, while usually inventory applicable information for a user.
One of a facilities in a obvious is a striking interface arrangement a “Go-To” menu choice in a content submit window.
The jury’s verdict: Apple unsuccessful to infer Samsung infringed on this patent.
Official description: Asynchronous information synchronization among devices.
What it unequivocally means: This obvious involves a approach to synchronize information opposite computers and mobile devices. In a box of a smartphone, this could request to synchronizing residence books on your phone with online storage.
The jury’s verdict: Samsung did not transgress on Apple’s patent.
Official description: Unlocking a device by behaving gestures on an clear image.
What it unequivocally means: This obvious refers to a approach of determining an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display. Specifically, Apple claimed Samsung infringed on a underline of a obvious that describes a swipe-and-unlock underline on iPhones.
The jury’s verdict: Apple done a box that certain Samsung devices, including a Admire, Stratosphere and Galaxy Nexus disregarded patents. But a row deserted claims regarding to Samsung’s Galaxy S II, Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch and Galaxy S II Skyrocket.
Official description: Remote video delivery system.
What it unequivocally means: Samsung’s obvious describes a complement for digitizing, compressing and transmitting audio and visible signals and afterwards reversing a routine for broadcast.
The jury’s verdict: Apple did not transgress on a territory of Samsung’s obvious that covers transmitting video in genuine time over a mobile frequency.
Official description: Apparatus for recording and reproducing digital picture and speech.
What it unequivocally means: This Samsung obvious refers to a kind of twin digital camera that’s turn customary in many smartphones. As described in a patent, a user is means to change a instruction of a camera.
The jury’s decision: Apple infringed on Samsung’s obvious on several versions of a iPhone and iPod Touch.