Patent Law

Double Zap

By Gary Odom and Jordan Kuhn

Samsung and Sharp have been warring over TV patents at the ITC. Earlier this month, Samsung was found infringing Sharp patents. All the ITC does, or can do, is issue an exclusion order. Now the ITC has determined that Sharp infringes a single Samsung patent. One of the two asserted Samsung patents got tossed. Expect the TVs to stay on store shelves while a cross-license is worked out.

For individual inventors, the Supreme Court outlawed injunctive relief in 2006, in eBay, particularly for products with hundreds of patented components. Corporations play by different rules.

Full post as published by The Patent Prospector on June 26, 2009 (boomark / email).