[Swordmaker]

Apple wins Samsung's Appeals on all the utility patent infringements, but the US Court of Appeals in DC reversed on Samsung's Appeals of the Design Patent infringements, but those are being sent back for further adjudication because the DC Appellate Court ruled that the Designs patents are actually functional and therefore may be covered by the established Utility patents under the case law of the ninth Circuit Court rulings. . .

[Swordmaker]

In the long running Court Room Drama of Apple v. Samsung in the Samsung patent infringement case, the Federal Court of Appeals in Washington DC has weighed in with an interesting decision, affirming most of the $930 million judgment on the Utility patents but reversing the Design patent infringements on the grounds that much of the design is actually functional and therefore not merely ornamental. . . and has returned it to the lower court for further infringement adjudication under Apple's Utility Patents on the iPhone, which may be more effective than the Design Patents, according to some analysts! — PING!

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[fireman15]

I am sorry Swordmaker because I assume you will disagree, but patenting a rectangle with rounded corners has got to be one of the most insane examples ever of the extreme abuse of our patent system. Our patent system is broken.