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<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: NYTimes.com News Alert <nytdirect@nytimes.com><BR>Subject: Latest: Apple Patent Victory Could Have Broad Implications for Mobile Industry<BR>To: memakunat@yahoo.com<BR>Date: Friday, August 24, 2012, 5:49 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>Breaking News Alert<BR>The New York Times<BR>Friday, August 24, 2012 -- 8:33 PM EDT<BR>-----<BR><BR>Apple Patent Victory Could Have Broad Implications for Mobile Industry<BR><BR>In a big legal victory for Apple that could have broad implications for the mobile business, a jury awarded the company more than $1 billion in damages Friday after finding that Samsung infringed on a series of Apple patents on smartphones and tablet computers.<BR><BR>The verdict could have a major impact on Android, the Google operating system used by Samsung and many other companies in their devices. Apple’s suit against Samsung, the world’s largest maker of smartphones, has partly been viewed as a proxy war against Google, which Apple executives have derided as a copycat.<BR><BR>A nine-person jury sided with Apple on most of its allegations, including patent claims involving the “bounce back” effect when a user scrolls to the end of a list, the
pinch-to-zoom gesture that users make when they want to magnify an image, and the physical design of the iPhone.<BR><BR>The jury added some sting by finding in favor of Apple across the board in a countersuit by Samsung.<BR><BR>Read More:<BR><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/25/technology/jury-reaches-decision-in-apple-samsung-patent-trial.html?emc=na" target=_blank>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/25/technology/jury-reaches-decision-in-apple-samsung-patent-trial.html?emc=na</A><BR><BR>To unsubscribe, go to:<BR><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/gst/unsub.html?email=memakunat@yahoo.com&id=53239314&segment=38231&group=nl&product=NA" target=_blank>http://www.nytimes.com/gst/unsub.html?email=memakunat@yahoo.com&id=53239314&segment=38231&group=nl&product=NA</A><BR><BR>About This E-Mail<BR>You received this message because you are signed up to receive breaking news alerts from NYTimes.com.<BR><BR>To change your e-mail address
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