Administrative Law Judge Thomas B. Pender, of the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) has found that Steve Jobs’ invention covered by patent number 7,479,949 was violated by Samsung.
Here is the abstract of the patent:
A computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with a computing device with a touch screen display comprises: detecting one or more finger contacts with the touch screen display, applying one or more heuristics to the one or more finger contacts to determine a command for the device, and processing the command. The one or more heuristics comprise: a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a one-dimensional vertical screen scrolling command, a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a two-dimensional screen translation command, and a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a command to transition from displaying a respective item in a set of items to displaying a next item in the set of items.
The judge also ruled that Samsung violated three additional Apple (AAPL) patents, namely patent number D618,678, patent number RE41,922, and patent number 7,912,501. The judge found that Samsung has violated section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 by importing certain devices into the United States that violate the above mentioned patents.
The victory by Apple is only partial and hollow. The judge ruled that patent number D558,757 and patent number 7,789,697 were not violated. More importantly the judge found that Galaxy S II does not infringe the claim of the D’678 patent…Read more at Forbes
