Tokyo court says Samsung infringed Apple 'bounce-back' patent

[onehandle]

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Tokyo court ruled on Friday that Samsung Electronics Co Ltd had infringed rival Apple Inc's patent for a so-called bounce-back feature on earlier models of its popular smartphones.

Samsung and Apple, the world's top two smartphone makers, are fighting patent disputes across the globe as they compete to dominate the lucrative mobile market and win customers with their latest gadgets.

Apple claimed that Samsung had copied the feature, in which icons on its smartphones and tablets quiver back when users scroll to the end of an electronic document. Samsung has already changed its interface on recent models to show a blue line at the end of documents.

The Japanese court's decision comes after the U.S. Patent and Trademark office judged earlier this year that Apple's bounce-back patent was invalid, allowing older Samsung models that had a similar feature to remain on sale.

http://news.yahoo.com/tokyo-court-says-samsung-infringed-apple-bounce-back-050406105.html

In the not so distant future, if you buy a Samsung phone, American Apple will make more money off of the purchase than Korean Samsung.

Google is next.

[Cooley Hurd]

1. This is sooo much like the Wright-Curtiss aileron patent wars...

Wing warping vs a movable surface on the trailing edge on the wing. Both did the exact same thing - it banked the aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers_patent_war

[WestStar]

2. If you buy an "Apple phone"

Samsung makes almost as much as Apple because they make the processors, memory and many of the screens for the I-Phones.

So they got that goin' for 'em.

[onehandle]

3. Keep up. Apple is killing those contracts.

Pretty soon, Samsung will have to actually do something original to survive.

[WestStar]

4. They've been saying that for years. We used to call that "vaporware"

Apple tried to find a manufacturer for the retina display too, they found only Samsung was equipped to do it.

Of course that doesn't mean they won't keep trying. Hell, they dumped Motorola and went with Intel finally too. That was a bit of a "scandal" to the fanbois.

I have no problem with Apple but they don't really make anything, they design it.