Samsung devices were found by a jury in California to have infringed one of the claims of the patent
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected claims of an Apple patent that figures prominently in a patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics, according to documents filed by the South Korean company in a U.S. federal court.
The 21 claims of the patent were rejected by the USPTO in a "final office action," as they were anticipated by previous patents or unpatentable. Known as the "pinch-to-zoom" patent, it covers the ability to distinguish between the scrolling movement of one finger and two-fingers gestures like pinch-to-zoom on a touch-screen to activate certain functions.
Apple has up to two months to respond to the USPTO decision. In a filing in April after USPTO rejected multiple claims of another patent in a similar final office action, Apple said it had further options, including appeal to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and seeking judicial review.
Claim eight of the patent was involved in Apple's lawsuit against Samsung in the court, according to a filing Sunday by Samsung in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division. A jury last August awarded Apple $1.05 billion in damages, but the court has ordered a partial retrial to review the damages to be paid to the iPhone maker.
The jury found at trial that 21 of 24 Samsung smartphones and tablets infringed claim 8 of U.S. Patent No. 7,844,915 ('915 patent), Samsung said in its filing on Sunday. The claim relates to "determining whether the event object invokes a scroll or gesture operation by distinguishing between a single input point applied to the touch-sensitive display that is interpreted as the scroll operation and two or more input points applied to the touch-sensitive display that are interpreted as the gesture operation," according to a USPTO document filed in the court by Samsung.
The USPTO ruled claim eight was anticipated in U.S. Patent No. 7,724,242 awarded to Daniel W. Hillis and Bran Ferren. "Hillis teaches distinguishing the number of contact points and determining whether the event object matches a gesture pattern," the USPTO wrote in its decision.
The USPTO rejected in April multiple claims of another patent that figured in the lawsuit, known as "overscroll bounce" patent. Apple, however, said in a filing that the reexamination is not finished, and it is entitled to file a response to the action which may result in a withdrawal of the rejection or certification of the claims under reexamination.
The company also raised the possibility that it may appeal to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and if unsuccessful, may seek judicial review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit or the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. A similar filing is likely from Apple in connection with the rejection of the '915 patent, even as Samsung is expected to argue for lower damages. The jury awarded damages to Apple with regard to all but two products found to infringe the '915 patent, Samsung said in its filing.
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Monday, July 29, 2013
US patent office rejects Apple’s ‘pinch to zoom’ patent claims
Of all the patents that Apple has sued Samsung over in the past couple of years, the pinch to zoom patent was perhaps the one that always came to the fore in every discussion related to the legal tussles, and in a move that will not make Apple happy, the US patent office (USPTO) has rejected claims of the Cupertino company to the pinch to zoom functionality.
The rejection of the patent’s 21 claims are deemed to be a “final office action” by the USPTO, after passing a preliminary ruling in December 2012 that the patent claims were invalid, but is open to appeal by Apple to the Patent Trial Appeal Board, similar to the “overscroll bounce” patent that was rejected in April and is currently under review. Claim eight is the most important here, as it was the one that got the courts to make Samsung pay $1 billion in damages, but with the claim now nullified, it seems things could get a bit uneven for Apple.
Whatever may happen in the coming months, this ruling is enormously in Samsung’s favor (and a big win in the fight against silly software patents), and it’s great to see the USPTO actually acting sensibly for a change (even if they did pass the patent initially). The war is far from over, but hey, Samsung is no doubt very h
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The rejection of the patent’s 21 claims are deemed to be a “final office action” by the USPTO, after passing a preliminary ruling in December 2012 that the patent claims were invalid, but is open to appeal by Apple to the Patent Trial Appeal Board, similar to the “overscroll bounce” patent that was rejected in April and is currently under review. Claim eight is the most important here, as it was the one that got the courts to make Samsung pay $1 billion in damages, but with the claim now nullified, it seems things could get a bit uneven for Apple.
Whatever may happen in the coming months, this ruling is enormously in Samsung’s favor (and a big win in the fight against silly software patents), and it’s great to see the USPTO actually acting sensibly for a change (even if they did pass the patent initially). The war is far from over, but hey, Samsung is no doubt very h
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Galaxy S 4—Ready for Take-off
There's never been a better time to make the switch. Easy Mode, Smart Pause, and Smart Switch are just some of the innovative features that make up the Galaxy S 4. To learn more about all the features that make the Galaxy S 4 The Next Big Thing, join the community at www.facebook.com/SamsungMobileUSA.
Samsung Mobile USA Galaxy S4 – Ready for Take-off
A new promoted video by Samsung America has been posted. According to Samsung there’s never been a better time to make the switch. Easy Mode, Smart Pause, and Smart Switch are just some of the innovative features that make up the Galaxy S4. Our question for you. Do you use all these kind of smartfunctions of the Galaxy S4? When I check my Galaxy S4, I only use Smart Stay and Smart Rotate.
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Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom Unboxing (Clove)
The S4 Zoom is a smartphone and camera that have been merged to create a unique proposition.
Heavier and bulkier than a traditional smartphone, the S4 Zoom isn't your average product as it has a dedicated camera shutter button, 10x optical Zoom and tripod mounting option.
Watch the video to find out what you get in the box and what the product is like to handle as a phone and camera.
Heavier and bulkier than a traditional smartphone, the S4 Zoom isn't your average product as it has a dedicated camera shutter button, 10x optical Zoom and tripod mounting option.
Watch the video to find out what you get in the box and what the product is like to handle as a phone and camera.
Samsung to Jump up Its Application Processor Competitiveness
Samsung to Jump up Its Application Processor Competitiveness
Samsung Electronics is going to apply its own architecture platform to Exynos, a next generation application processor (AP).
It will be the first time for the company to develop Exynos based on its own architecture platform by redesigning the ARM cores. While most of the chip makers are using the ARM cores, there are only a small number of them including Apple and Qualcomm that have developed their own platforms after signing an architecture license with ARM. Therefore, Samsung is expected to drastically jump up its AP competitiveness.
According to the relevant industry on July 28, Samsung Electronics is developing a next generation Exynos that will be equipped with a redesigned ARM core platform led by Samsung Austin R&D Center (SARC). The development is expected to be completed early next year and applied to the company’s flagship Smartphone model.
The platform under development focuses on maximizing the bus performance between the CPU and memories such as DRAM and NAND flash, ensuring that its data-handling capacity and power efficiency are a lot better than the existing ARM cores.
The AP to which Samsung’s architecture platform will be applied is very likely to be a follow-up model of the recently-released processor, ‘Exynos 5 Octa Core’.
It is known that Samsung signed an architecture license with ARM two to three years ago in order to develop its own AP platform. Not only 32bit-based ARMv7 such as Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A19 but also 64bit ARMv8 architecture is included in the contract. The license on the 64bit core is believed to be used for the development of server CPUs.
It is not certain if Samsung would apply big.LITTLE to Exynos as it has had a hard time in addressing heat and design errors after it adopted the technology for its GALAXY S4.
big.LITTLE is a new technology into which Cortex-A7 that boasts low power consumption and Cortex-A15 that handles speedy processing are combined. For calling and texting, A7 is used and for videos, games and other fast processing operations, A15 is switched on.
“It is very positive for Samsung to improve itself from an initial stage of merely utilizing the ARM cores to the point where it deals with the architecture. A new architecture platform that would be equal to the one made by Qualcomm is expected,” says a source from the semiconductor industry.
Samsung Electronics is going to apply its own architecture platform to Exynos, a next generation application processor (AP).
It will be the first time for the company to develop Exynos based on its own architecture platform by redesigning the ARM cores. While most of the chip makers are using the ARM cores, there are only a small number of them including Apple and Qualcomm that have developed their own platforms after signing an architecture license with ARM. Therefore, Samsung is expected to drastically jump up its AP competitiveness.
According to the relevant industry on July 28, Samsung Electronics is developing a next generation Exynos that will be equipped with a redesigned ARM core platform led by Samsung Austin R&D Center (SARC). The development is expected to be completed early next year and applied to the company’s flagship Smartphone model.
The platform under development focuses on maximizing the bus performance between the CPU and memories such as DRAM and NAND flash, ensuring that its data-handling capacity and power efficiency are a lot better than the existing ARM cores.
The AP to which Samsung’s architecture platform will be applied is very likely to be a follow-up model of the recently-released processor, ‘Exynos 5 Octa Core’.
It is known that Samsung signed an architecture license with ARM two to three years ago in order to develop its own AP platform. Not only 32bit-based ARMv7 such as Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A19 but also 64bit ARMv8 architecture is included in the contract. The license on the 64bit core is believed to be used for the development of server CPUs.
It is not certain if Samsung would apply big.LITTLE to Exynos as it has had a hard time in addressing heat and design errors after it adopted the technology for its GALAXY S4.
big.LITTLE is a new technology into which Cortex-A7 that boasts low power consumption and Cortex-A15 that handles speedy processing are combined. For calling and texting, A7 is used and for videos, games and other fast processing operations, A15 is switched on.
“It is very positive for Samsung to improve itself from an initial stage of merely utilizing the ARM cores to the point where it deals with the architecture. A new architecture platform that would be equal to the one made by Qualcomm is expected,” says a source from the semiconductor industry.
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