The American patentenbureau Uspto has the rubber bandingpatent, Apple will be void. The company used this patent in its legal battle against Samsung, so might be a part of the compensation of 1 billion dollar is reversed.
According to the patentenblog Foss Patents, the Uspto, the conscious patent, no. 7,469,381 carries, for the time being declared to be invalid. That means that the decision still be reversed, but it is unclear whether this is plausible. It is however likely that Apple’s decision will be disputed, which makes a final judgement for some time yet in coming.
The Uspto believes that the relevant patent was used previously, before Apple here patent granted. Because prior art is the patent is not valid, according to the U.s. patentenbureau. Because Samsung in a U.s. patentenzaak with Apple guilty was found to have infringed on the ‘381 patent, is it likely that the invalidation for this purpose has consequences. Samsung was ordered to pay compensation of more than a billion dollars, but if the patent as invalid remains classified, seems to be a reduction of this amount likely.
In the lawsuit with Samsung was the ‘381 patent, one of the most important arrows that Apple on his bow had. A whopping 21 of Samsung’s mobile devices infringe on this particular patent, for example, in the rechtbankjury earlier. The judge in the conscious lawsuit must still be on the recent ongeldigheidsverklaring of the Uspto to respond.
The patent describes a technique for rubber banding, which ensures that the interface of a touchscreen device that has a ‘bounce’effect shows when the user presses the bottom of the list is reached scrolling. Several Android smartphones, including Samsung, have such a technique is used, but in most devices, this is replaced by a variant, probably because of the patent of Apple.
