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Topic subjectITC Judge Rejects Apple's FRAND Arguments Against Samsung
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276544, ITC Judge Rejects Apple's FRAND Arguments Against Samsung
Posted by wallysmith, Wed Oct-10-12 03:37 PM
"The Administrative Law Judge in his "Initial Determination" ruling utterly and definitely rejected Apple's FRAND allegations and completely exonerated Samsung.

He ruled that injunctions are definitely available at the ITC for patents-essential patents, and that there is zero evidence of any wrong behavior by Samsung. Furthermore, the judge told Apple, which had claimed that the amount Samsung asked for licensing was too high to be a FRAND offer, that Apple can't unilaterally decide what is or is not a fair price.

The judge not only totally debunks the arguments Apple brought, he goes further and rules differently than the jury in the case recently decided in California US District Court, Apple v. Samsung on the question of patent exhaustion. He writes that he can't rely on that jury's verdict, because it arrived at contradictory conclusions."

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20121007194355579