Apple Loses Bid for a New Samsung Trial on Trade Dress
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Apple Inc. lost its bid for a new trial over trade-dress claims against Samsung Electronics Co. for its iPad and iPad 2 in a ruling stemming from the patent-infringement case it won in San Jose, California, last year.
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, who oversaw the infringement trial, today denied Apple’s argument that jurors erred by finding Apple’s trade dress, or how a product looks, for the iPad and iPad 2 wasn’t protectable. The judge also denied Apple’s request that she overrule jurors’ conclusion that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 didn’t infringe one patent covering the design of Apple’s iPad tablet computer.