by A U.S. District Court judge made mistakes when she rejected Apple’s request for a sales injunction against rival Samsung Electronics in a multimillion-dollar patent infringement case, Apple’s lawyer argued before an appeals court Friday.
After a jury found in August 2012 that Samsung had infringed six Apple design and utility patents, Judge Lucy Koh of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California incorrectly held Apple’s patents to a “rigid” standard for determining whether to ban the sale of six Samsung smartphones, said Apple lawyer William Lee, arguing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Koh wrongly decided that each of the six patents in question needed to be the driving functionality for consumer interest in Apple’s products before she could issue a sales injunction, Lee said. That reasoning would make it difficult to issue an injunction in cases involving complex technology products, Apple’s attorney told the appeals court judges.
The court found that Samsung had infringed Apple’s patents and found the infringement caused irreparable harm to Apple, Lee argued. “That should be enough” to issue a sales injunction, he added.
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