The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled on Friday that certain
Samsung products do infringe on two
Apple patents and should be barred from being sold here. However, the trade court also ruled in Samsung’s favor with regard to four other patents at issue and said that no violations occurred.
The order doesn’t list all the products involved, but it appears to include a wide range of Samsung phones and
tablets.
Apple praised the ruling. “With today’s decision, the ITC has joined courts around the world in Japan, Korea, Germany, Netherlands and California by standing up for innovation and rejecting Samsung’s blatant copying of Apple’s products,” Apple said. “Protecting real innovation is what the patent system should be about.”
Samsung, meanwhile, said it was disappointed that the ITC issued the exclusion order, but spokesman Adam Yates said Samsung was pleased that “Apple has been stopped from trying to use its overbroad design patents to achieve a monopoly on rectangles and rounded corners.”
