2 days ago in Law.com: Apple will soon return to court to continue its legal battle with Samsung over Samsung’s infringement of Apple’s iPhone design. As sales of “iPhone” fall (many reports about this throughout this week) the patent case too seems to be falling apart. Apple uses patents against a Korean giant that now yields more chips than the US-based Intel (as per new reports). Depending on what the highest court has to say (if anything) about design patents, , we may soon see. “What the US needs is a technology-centric PTO what it might soon get, however, is a legal ‘industry’-centric PTO, promising to further exacerbate things for the benefit of patent trolls (not technologists but litigators).”The notion that patent maximalism is somehow “great” for the US is a false one it’s promoted by people who profit from litigation activity. What we have here isn’t US interests being served but the profits of few ultra-wealthy individuals being guarded so that they can deny access to medicine (e.g.
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