Apple Inc. (AAPL) Key Patent Re-examined: U.S. Patent Office

As a whole, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has an extensive patent portfolio, so if it loses this one patent upon a further review, it may not change the game for the company, but for as much as Apple has leaned on that patent in many of its patent fights, this may be consequential. While the ink was still wet, Samsung took this to the courtroom of U.S. Judge Lucy Koh – who presided over the aforementioned U.S. patent trial – in an attempt to have the initial trial thrown out, while Apple is moving to ban U.S. imports and sales of several Samsung devices that was based on this patent in particular.

Samsung, of course, claimed that this re-examination is “relevant” to is retrial motion, but Koh has shot down both the Samsung and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) motions at this point. Considering that the jury awarded the $1 billion decision basically on the back of the patent, when the jury ruled that 21 of 24 Samsung devices infringed on this patent. All 21 claims on the patent were rejected due to claims from other patents, including one from another U.S. firm and one from Japan. Apple will have the chance to contest this re-examination as part of the ongoing patent proceedings.