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A federal judge softened the blow from Apple’s legal victory in a patent case over Samsung, lopping more than 40 percent off the damages.
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Apple’s patents victory could reduce choice of smartphones
Apple (NasdaqGS: AAPL – news) ‘s legal victory after a US jury found rival Samsung violated patents used in the iPhone could result in fewer smartphone options for consumers, analyists have said.
On Friday night, Samsung was ordered to pay $1.05bn (£664m) in damages to Apple, after a nine-person jury in San Jose, California, found the South Korean company infringed six of the seven Apple patents in dispute and did so willfully in five of the cases.
The jurors also upheld the validity of all seven of Apple patents, many of which covered the design of the iPhone.
Experts said the legal victory by Apple Inc sends a warning to other companies manufacturing similar devices.
“Some of these device makers might end up saying, ‘We love Android, but we really don’t want to fight with Apple anymore,’” said Christopher Marlett, CEO of MDB Capital Group, an investment bank specializing in intellectual property.
“I think it may ultimately come down to Google (NasdaqGS: GOOG – news) having to indemnify these guys, if it wants them to continue using Android.”
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Jury decides Samsung infringed on Apple patents
August 24, 2012 3:53 PM PDT
Verdict favors Apple overwhelmingly in a landmark patent decision, jury awards $1.05 billion in damages tied to infringements in Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Corrected at 6:35 p.m. PT
SAN JOSE, Calif. — It wasn’t even close.
After 21 hours of deliberation, a nine-person jury has sided with Apple on a majority of its patent infringement claims against Samsung Electronics. The jury also awarded Apple more than $1 billion in damages.
Apple had originally sought $2.75 billion in damages, and though it wasn’t unanimous on all counts, the verdict was overwhelmingly in Apple’s favor. Samsung, which asked for $421 million in its countersuit, did not receive a nickel. (Refer to jury document at the end of this story.)
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Both Apple And Samsung Are Breaching Patents Says Court: Products Banned From Sale
Tim Worstall, Contributor
This isn’t all that much of a surprise to be honest, a court has found that both Apple and Samsung are guilty of breaching each other’s patents and that therefore they should both have to pay compensation. Several products from each company has also been banned from sale.
The only slight problem with this welcome ruling is that this isn’t the result of the major trial in California where we are waiting for the jury’s verdict. Rather, this was a much more minor case in South Korea:
A South Korean court has fined both Apple and Samsung, ruling that each infringed the other’s patents in building their mobile devices and banning some of their products from sale in the country.
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Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: "Izon Science granted core …
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Christchurch, New Zealand | Posted on June 9th, 2012
The Australian Patent Office has also accepted Izon Science Patent No. 2005315729 for the same core technology.
Izon Science has also been granted a patent for its analysis platform by the UK Intellectual Property Office. UK Patent No. 2477287 (formerly Application No. 1001311.8) for Control of particle flow in an aperture and relates to the use of combined pressure and voltage. This follows on from the prior award of the core patent in 2006 (GB2421303, 12 November 2006).
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Artificial Intellegence Patent
Inventors:
Yang, Jiang-ming (Beijing, CN) Cai, Rui (Beijing, CN) Wang, Xin-jing (Beijing, CN) Zhang, Lei (Beijing, CN) under the auspices of Microsoft Corporation were awarded patent rights for an artificial intelligence process.
The Basis of the Patent
Here is a patent you can read about on our Artificial Intelligence RSS feed. Date May 22 titled “Modeling semantic and structure of threaded discussions”. How will this software affect our social lifestyle?
This is intelligence computer software for the management and automation of DATA logic streams. It is designesd to increase logic streams to develop the art of discussion closer to the level of the fact of the word and begin interpreting automate dicisions on the possible meaning word, given the context in which itthe word is found in the discussion threads.
The patent was awarded on May 22, 2012 and was applied for, almost 3 years ago. It seems they are a bit backed up over there in the US Office of Patents and Trademarks. This patent will help bloggers, forum and discussion group moderators and is based on models consisting of semantic terms and structural terms. It will help in organizing posts on forums, finding the experts on a subject for good information sorting and identify junk mail and spin content that tries to appear on blogs and forums these days.
The patent comes under the heading of artificial intelligence because this modeling system makes decisions and constructs organized ideas in the form dialogue output based on dialogue input.
If you are looking for the origins of Robby, Terminator the Jetsons or Futurama or even HAL from 2001 type robots, then look no further. It is verbal logic systems like the one patented this week that will be the cyborgs of tomorrow.
Here is a discussion of experts model example used in the Patent application.
This is the kind of discussion that a robot would understand as easily as a programmer discussing topics online.
Very tidy piece of organization. And presumably the junk posts have been dispensed with as well. This next figure contained in the patent give a hint of the formula used for that function.
Assigning numeric probability values to semantic and structural terms to come up with the likelihood of a bogus comment.
By this method it would in principle be possible to construct laws and ordinances. By creating a discussion framework to solve a certain problem. Then sorting through the comments, discovering who were the experts in the discussion and who were just letting off steam. You could have a political module, a logistics module an engineering module, behavior statistics module and run the comments through them and set up the elements in the law that would give it highest probability to pass legislation.
This patent has been pending for almost 3 years now and so has probably been in use since then. That means it may already be outdated. Who knows what they are actually implementing now in the artificial intelligence world.
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