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Intellectual Property

Oct. 25, 2012

Patent office ruling gives Samsung a small opening in Apple patent case

An Apple Inc. patent that a jury concluded was infringed by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. this summer has been declared invalid in a preliminary ruling by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.


By Rachel Swan


Daily Journal Staff Writer


An Apple Inc. patent that a jury concluded was infringed by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. this summer has been declared invalid in a preliminary ruling by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.


The decision, reached last week, was revealed Monday night in a filing by Samsung attorney Victoria F. Maroulis, a Redwood Shores-based partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP.


The patent of...

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