Apple, Samsung, Adidas, Dotcom, FDA: Intellectual Property
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Apple Inc. asked a U.S. appeals court to reinstate patent-infringement claims it filed against Google Inc.’s Motorola Mobility unit over touch-screen technology used in mobile phones.
“This is Apple’s first touch-screen patent,” Apple lawyer Joshua Rosenkranz of San Francisco’s Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP told a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington yesterday. The patent was for “a key invention and it drove the iPhone phenomenon and later the iPad. It claims something that no one had ever done.”