Samsung has trimmed some of its claims in its never-ending lawsuit with Apple, removing two standards-essential patents and one other from its complaint. In this filing to the US District Court, the two companies have agreed that the following Samsung patents will be removed from the case: US patent 7,756,087, which covers …

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Tuesday 11th March 2014 04:23 GMT Grikath

It seems..

mr. Slant is preparing to lift an eyebrow?

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Tuesday 11th March 2014 09:12 GMT returnmyjedi

I'm pretty certain I had a Sony Ericsson that was able to fulfil claim 27 also. Seems like a pretty obvious claim so how its patentable is rather puzzling.

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1. Tuesday 11th March 2014 11:17 GMT Byz
  
  Part of claim 27 is quite specific on hardware to be used
  
  "The microcomputer 411 for controlling the transmission rate stores a constant amount of MPEG1-formatted data in a buffer memory 412. The formatted data is passed through an interface circuit 413 and a card connector 414 and reaches a harddisk drive 415. The card connector 414 is configured on the PCMCIA standards and thus contains 68 pins. The harddisk drive 415 is sized to a memory card and subject to the PC card standards defined by the PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association)."
  
  I don't remember a PCMCIA being used on an iPhone (maybe on an apple newton that predates the patent).
  
  :o
  
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Tuesday 11th March 2014 09:33 GMT Anonymous Coward

Judge Lucy Koh

There must be mornings when this poor woman wakes up and thinks... "God give me the strength to make it through this day".

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1. Tuesday 11th March 2014 09:56 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Judge Lucy Koh
  
  You are probably right, though describing a US judge as a "poor woman" would cause hollow laughter in 99.9% of the world's population.
  
  I imagine too that she has other cases, in some of which one of the parties is the good guy rather than both of them being the bad guy, as here.
  
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  1. Tuesday 11th March 2014 10:47 GMT Michael H.F. Wilkinson
    
    Re: Judge Lucy Koh
    
    At least it is easy to remain impartial if you feel both parties are tiresome into the extreme
    
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    1. Tuesday 11th March 2014 11:38 GMT VinceH
      
      Re: Judge Lucy Koh
      
      I'm not entirely sure the joke icon was necessary, there.
      
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Tuesday 11th March 2014 13:13 GMT Ted Treen

Both companies...

...would probably be well advised to initiate a cull within their respective legal departments.

Perhaps then they could begin to operate and compete rationally, with the main winners being the customers and not the sodding lawyers!

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Tuesday 11th March 2014 13:48 GMT DoctorNine

With less manufacturing overlap between Apple and Samsung, I suspect that soon we will start to see less hemorrhaging of IP lawsuits. Not much consolation to Judge Koh today though.

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