U.S. ITC judge wants Samsung to post a bond of 88% of its U.S. smartphone sales due to Apple patent case

“An October 24, 2012 preliminary ruling that held Samsung to infringe four Apple patents could have more drastic consequences for Samsung’s U.S. business than previously known,” FLorian Mueller reports for FOSS Patents. “If the U.S. trade agency affirms the judge’s findings of violations (which the ITC staff supports across the board) and adopts his recommended remedies, Samsung faces the following draconian combination of sanctions.”

a U.S. import ban that would enter into effect after the 60-day Presidential review period following a final ITC decision,

a simultaneous cease-and-desist order that would prohibit the sale of any commercially significant quantities of the imported infringing accused products in the United States (this remedy was denied against HTC), and

the requirement to post a bond of 88% of the value of all mobile phones, 32.5% of the value of all media players, and 37.6% of the value of all tablet computers found to infringe Apple’s patents-in-suit during the Presidential review period.

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Apple appeals Judge Lucy Koh’s refusal to bar Samsung’s patent infringing smartphones from U.S. market

“Apple is appealing a judge’s refusal to bar Samsung smartphones from the U.S. market after a jury found Samsung used some Apple technology without permission,” Paul Elias reports for The Associated Press.

“Apple’s lawyers notified U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh on Thursday that the company would try to overturn her order with the appeal to the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,” Elias reports.

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Apple seeks to add Samsung’s Galaxy Note, Google’s Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to patent infringement lawsuit

“Apple Inc. told a judge that Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy Note 10.1 device infringes its patents, and sought to add the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system to an existing lawsuit against Samsung in California,” Joel Rosenblatt and Pam MacLean report for Bloomberg.

“Apple made the arguments today to U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal in federal court in San Jose,” Rosenblatt and MacLean report. “Apple's bid to expand the lawsuit follows Samsung's Oct. 1 move to add patent- infringement claims against the iPhone 5 in the same case. Apple won a $1.05 billion jury verdict against Samsung on Aug. 24 in a separate patent case in the same court.”

Rosenblatt and MacLean report, “The case in which Apple added the Galaxy Note 10.1 and Jelly Bean operating system is scheduled for trial in 2014.”

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MacDailyNews Take: 2014. The legal system is so efficient as to render itself useless.

They got O.J. more quickly.

Samsung to invest $4 billion in Austin mobile chip plant

According to a Reuters report, Samsung announced Tuesday that it will invest approximately $4 billion at its Austin, Texas chip plant.

Samsung’s goal is to renovate an existing chip producing line and boost production of system chips, widely used in popular smartphones and tablets.

The investment is in addition to nearly $2 billion in spending that Samsung announced in June to build a new logic chip plant in South Korea.

Samsung earlier this year converted two chip lines from memory to logic chip production in order to meet growing demand from mobile gadget customers such as Apple.

MacDailyNews Take: Ya hear that, U.S. jury?

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Fred Mertz" for the heads up.]

Steve Jobs offered iOS patent licensing deal to Samsung for $250 million; stupid Samsung declined

“In October 2010, seven months after Steve Jobs told his biographer that he was going ‘thermonuclear’ on Google’s Android for ripping off the iPhone, he and Tim Cook offered Samsung a secret licensing deal — a fact that Apple saved for last Friday in its multibillion dollar patent trial against the Korean electronics giant that is both a key Apple supplier and the largest manufacturer of Android phones,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.

“According to the late-afternoon testimony of Borks Teksler, Apple’s director of patent licensing strategy, the company’s top executives had been ‘shocked’ in March 2010 when Samsung introduced the first of its line of Galaxy S touchscreen phones. ‘We didn’t understand how a trusted partner would build a copycat product like that,’ he told the jury. Jobs and Cook contacted Samsung and demanded a meeting,” P.E.D reports. “In August 2010, Apple prepared a document that identified dozens of instances where it believed Samsung was using or encouraging others to use Apple’s patented technology, Teksler testified. Then the jury was shown Defendant’s Exhibit No. 586: A Keynote presentation Teksler created in early October that spelled out exactly what Apple wanted in return. ‘Because Samsung is a strategic suppler to Apple,’ the preamble reads, ‘we are prepared to offer a royalty-bearing license for this category of device.’”

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