Does Apple’s HTC Patents Settlement Doom The Samsung Case?

Are There Troubled Waters Ahead For Samsung?
Here’s Something For You To “Chew On”…

A little piece of legal finagling that could have some very interesting results. Apple has, as we know, settled with HTC over patents. And reached a general patent cross licensing agreement.

Yet Apple, in the Samsung cases, seems to be saying that there are certain patents that it would never license. For getting mere money for them would never be enough. It’s on that that the potential Samsung product bans rest.

For judges, if money’s a good enough compensation, prefer not to ban products.

All of which makes which patents Apple did license to HTC most interesting.

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by Tim Worstall, Contributor to Forbes