The patent agency ruled that the two of the patents shouldn't have even been issues in the first place because they are abstract concepts and not specific inventions.
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On June 4, the ITC, the U.S.
agency that serves as a watchdog on international trade,
ruled in favor of Samsung's
patent and limited the ability of Apple to sell some older smartphone products.
The
agency has been forced to tighten its eligibility
rules in light of recent Supreme Court decisions — including a 2013
ruling that struck down
patents on human genes — but its first pass at new guidelines for examiners raised a stink.
The
ruling by an appeals board of the European
Patent Office may apply to as many as 200 similar inventions pending in Europe, Rainer Osterwalder, a spokesman for the Munich - based
agency, said today.
On October 24, an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) of the International Trade Commission (ITC), a quasi-judicial
agency that can impose import bans on
patent - infringing products, made an initial determination (preliminary
ruling) according to which Samsung was held to infringe four Apple
patents (one phone design
patent and three utility
patents).
On April 22 the U.S. trade
agency found a Motorola sensor
patent invalid, affirming (on slightly modified grounds) a preliminary
ruling by an Administrative Law Judge.
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In the U.S., the ITC, a trade
agency with quasi-judicial powers, is currently reviewing a preliminary
ruling that held HTC to infringe two Nokia hardware
patents.