Apple and Samsung in camera suit win, Newman dissents
14-06-2021
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The Federal Circuit’s split ruling in a precedential phone camera patent suit could further obfuscate the Mayo/Alice process, say Michael Comeau and Melissa Chapman of Fishman Stewart.
In Yu et al v Apple et al, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a patent infringement lawsuit in favour of Apple and Samsung.
The suit alleged that multi-camera features of Apple and Samsung phones infringed US patent number 6,611,289, but the majority applied the two-step test from Mayo/Alice and agreed with the lower court that claim 1 is ineligible under section 101 because it recites an “abstract idea” without an “inventive concept”.
Claim 1 of the ‘289 patent recites:
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