The U.S. District Court in San Jose has ruled that Samsung must stop “making, using, selling, developing or designing software or code that helps its products infringe” on three particular Apple patents Bloomberg reports.
While the patents in question deal with autocorrect, slide-to-unlock, and data detection, this ruling only affects devices no longer sold by Samsung, including the Galaxy S II, S III, and Note smartphones. Though the ruling will have a minimal effect on Samsung’s business, Apple will seemingly have a stronger position going forward in arguing that Samsung’s more recent devices still infringe on the same patents, as the companies continue to square off on patent issues.
A statement from Samsung said that even though American consumers wouldn’t be directly impacted by the ruling, the company is still “very disappointed.”
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