US judge sanctions Samsung, kills important defense against Apple
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US Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal imposed a severe and rarely used penalty yesterday on Samsung in its case against Apple by eliminating one of Samsung's infringement defenses from the lawsuit. The defense was an important one: Samsung had argued that its recent implementation of the "blue glow" feature in TouchWiz is a non-infringing workaround to Apple's patent — US 7,469,381 — on the iOS "scrollback" behavior that displays a background texture when you scroll beyond the edge of a document or webpage. The court's reasoning for yanking this defense is hard to argue with. »read more
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