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A defeat for Samsung on its home turf. A Seoul court on Thursday rejected the tech
giant's claim that iPhone and iPad models violated three of its patents.
The Seoul Central District Court ruled that Apple did not infringe on Samsung patents
related to text messaging... saying the technology in two of them could easily be independently
developed by others, and that the third was not used in the iPad.
Samsung said immediately after the decision that they would appeal.
The ruling is the latest legal blow to Samsung, which owes Apple 930 million U.S. dollars
from two jury verdicts in the U.S. But in a separate patent case on Wednesday
in Germany, Samsung scored a victory. A Mannheim court ruled that Apple had infringed
on one of Samsung's multi-language function patents.