Patent Wars

Apple’s D618677 claims “The ornamental design of an electronic device, as shown and described” and includes 7 more drawings like this one of the iPhone design.
Apple’s D618677 claims “The ornamental design of an electronic device, as shown and described” and includes 7 more drawings like this one of the iPhone design.

 

Foss Patents, a German patent blog, said on August 21 (local time) that the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) would reexamine the validity of Apple’s three commercial and design patents that were used in the patent litigation between Apple and Samsung Electronics. 

The USPTO had received the request back in June this year and accepted it after two months. The patents in question are D618677 (D’677) and D618678 (D’678), design patents for the iPhone, and 8014760 (760) for missed call management. The D’677 patent was used in the suit at the District Court of California and the D’678 and 760 were brought up by Apple during the patent infringement lawsuit at the US International Trade Commission (ITC) and the following lawsuit at the district court, respectively. 

Earlier, the USPTO ruled that most of the claims for Apple’s Bounce Back patent were invalid, and delivered the same ruling regarding its heuristic touch screen and two-finger zoom patents, which were called Steve Jobs’s patents.

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