The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) said in a notice...
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) said in a notice Wednesday that it would review “in its entirety” a ruling by one of its administrative law judges that Samsung had violated Apple patents (http://xrl.us/bob6qz), in the latest chapter in the…
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ongoing legal dispute between the two companies over mobile device patents. The ITC case is separate from Apple’s successful patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung in the U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif.; Judge Lucy Koh is still conducting post-verdict hearings in that case. Judge Thomas Pender ruled in October that Samsung had violated one of Apple’s iPhone design patents and three of its software patents (http://xrl.us/bnvvnb). If the ruling stands, it could lead to U.S. sales bans on some Samsung products. Apple and Samsung had both asked the ITC to review the ruling, while Google had submitted a public interest statement in the case, the commission said, not mentioning what Google said. The ITC had originally planned to make its final initial determination on the case March 27, but said it will set a new date within 30 days of the notice’s posting.