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Samsung Overturns Nexus Sales Ban in the USA
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Samsung has managed to overturn a sales ban on the Google Nexus smartphone just after Apple had posted the necessary bond deposit to enforce an earlier court order.
Apple had secured the sales ban in a pre-trial decision that upheld its argument that the Android smartphone violated its patents.
The appeals-court has now overturned that verdict, which itself was unusual in ordering the ban before the trial had even started. The court did not elaborate on its decision, although Google has said that it has a software workaround to bypass the patents that Apple is enforcing.
The full trial is not due to start until next March, by which time the handset would have been almost certainly discontinued anyway.
Apple is arguing that the Nexus smartphone infringes on four of its patents: the use of a single search function, the slide to unlock facility; predictive text and manipulation of data structures within computer data.
However, only the patent relating to the search functionality is the one being cited by the Judge in approving the pre-trial sales ban.
Tags: [samsung] [apple] [google] [USA]
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