A court in Tokyo has ruled that Samsung Electronics did not infringe on patents held by Apple, a victory for the South Korean company.
The patent was related to transferring media content between devices.
It comes after Samsung lost a key patent case in the US last week and was ordered to pay more than $1bn (£664m) in damages.
This is one of many cases brought to courts around the world by the two smartphone market leaders.
[WS:] So it looks like the US court - of all places in Silicon Valley - sided with Apple. Elsewhere the Apple's case was either thrown out of court or lost.
Some time ago the NYT run article on how the US constitution is perceived as antiquated and parochial by legal scholars outside the US http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/us/we-the-people-loses-appeal-with-people-around-the-world.html?_r=3&ref=us.
It seems that this can be extended to the US patent law, if not the entire justice system - it is basically the enforcement subdivision of the US business class. -- Wojtek
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