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Looking back to 1887, Supreme Court weighs design patent changes through Apple-Samsung case

By Mike Swift ( October 11, 2016, 22:04 GMT | Insight) -- The US Supreme Court appeared deeply skeptical Tuesday of a 2015 federal appeals court ruling that allowed Apple to receive Samsung’s entire profit, $399 million, on 11 smartphones that infringed three design patents for the front face and software icon arrangement of the iPhone.The US Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared skeptical of allowing Apple to take Samsung's entire profit on smartphones that infringed iPhone design patents, but it wrestled with what standard should be used to determine whether a design-patent infringer must surrender all of the profits it collected on a finished product that incorporates the patented design....

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