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Supreme Court sides with Samsung in Apple patent case

http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/06/technology/samsung-apple-supreme-court/index.html?iid=hp-stack-dom

The court was not asked to weigh in on whether Samsung actually violated various Apple design patents. Instead, the court ruled it's possible a design patent only covers part of a product rather than all of it.
Translation: Just because a company's product copies one or two features from a competitor doesn't necessarily mean it has to forfeit all of that product's profits to its competitor.
The case now goes back to a lower court where the two companies will once again take up the issue of how much Samsung should pay in damages for copying iPhone features.
"It's clearly a victory for Samsung," says Michael Risch, a patent law professor at Villanova University. "How big a victory remains to be seen."