A few weeks ago the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), won a lawsuit filed by Samsung in the US, a jury making the decision that certain Korean products infringe patents of those from Cupertino. Based on this victory, the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), he filed a motion yesterday by which he asks the American court to prohibit the sale of the terminals in the USA Samsung for which it was decided that invention patents are violated.
Surprise. Note. In a follow-up to this month's $119 million jury verdict in the Northern District of California, Apple filed a motion for a US permanent injunction against Samsung late on Friday by local time. With respect to the three patents Samsung has been held to have infringed (one of them by summary judgment and two by the jury), Apple is asking Judge Lucy Koh to order a US sales ban.
Company request Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), it considers the software implementations of the codes protected by its patents and is limited only to the devices on the basis of which it won the respective process. Based on this request, Samsung could modify Android The OS to replace the infringed functions with other software implementations that do not infringe any Apple patent in any way, so the products could remain on the market.
The proposed injunction order would refer to the products at issue in the recent trial but would relate to any "software or code capable of implementing any Infringing Feature, and/or any feature not more than colorably different therefrom", including software or code found in newer (even future) devices.
Considering that we are talking about a long legal process, no one knows when or if any product will really be taken off the market. In the past, Apple tried to remove similar Samsung products from sale and managed to obtain bans based on similar reasons, but everything depends on the motivations it will present before the court.
