Who were the major parties?
Apple and Samsung were involved in this lawsuit case losing close to a billion US dollars for their series of cases involving patents.
Nature of the dispute:
Apple and Samsung have been taking their patent infringement case to court for years. The cause of it was that Samsung had somewhat copied the originality of Apple’s iPhone. Later on, the Samsung sued Apple for the very same problem as they copied their ‘Lock button’ placement.
What I thought was this fight was slightly unimportant. I feel that patents are overissued, hence these problems arises. I would agree that patenting is a genius idea from getting your ideas stolen or not paying you for it. However, patenting is also slightly malleable as well as a few loop holes in patents. For example, the Gibson guitar was patented for its body style but if another company copies the same body shape but adding extra two more screws, it is not eligible for a sue. The loopholes are definitely big so I wonder, is patenting something quite trivial important enough for a sue? Is it even worth the money and time to bring the case to court?
This website (picture below) tells about another experience on patenting and producing a guitar. Usually a guitar does have a similar body shape. Patenting it seems really useless because the sound of the guitar relies on the body shape.
