So far,
design patents indeed appeared to have been of much less interest to trolls.
Not exact matches
Yesterday (Sunday), Judge Lucy Koh of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California determined that a new Apple v. Samsung trial on
design patent damages, which Samsung had been fighting for in courts on both coasts of the United States since the 2012 verdict, is
indeed going to happen.
This particular Samsung
design reveals the slimmest of details that confirm that it is
indeed a tablet, that it's constructed with a unique rotational hinge and that the tablet could form a TV Like device when the two tablets are linked together as illustrated below in
patent FIG. 10.
Whatever the case, the latest Samsung
patent suggests the company is
indeed thinking seriously about a new smartphone
design that doesn't stick to the traditional, rigid smartphone to which we've grown accustomed.