From theregister.com:
The US Patent Office appears to have provisionally invalidated one of the major
patents that Apple was using against Samsung... And it's possible that large
parts of the case will go “kablooie” as a result.
Everyone will remember that the Cupertinians were most
insistent that the “bounce back scrolling” thing was a terribly important
innovation which Samsung had heinously and horribly copied. It seemed to have
further held that this led to some part of Sammy's success and that Apple was
therefore due the output of a small nation or two in damages. However, as Florian Mueller has uncovered
that's not quite the way the land lies now.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has good news
for Samsung, and Samsung has already shared it with Judge Koh in a late-night
filing. In a "non-final" Office action the USPTO has declared all 20
claims of Apple's rubber-banding patent (US Patent No, 7,469,381 invalid,
including claim 19, which Apple successfully asserted against Samsung in the
summer trial in California. In fact, claim 19 is one of several claims to be
deemed invalid for two reasons, either one of which would be sufficient on its
own…
Wait…wait…there’s more at . http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/23/uspto_apple_patent/
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