Samsung, Patent Office, Freeplay: Intellectual Property
Mar 4, 2015
Samsung Electronics Co. is about to find out just how costly its four-year patent fight with Apple Inc. has been. Each side spent hundreds of millions of dollars in legal bills to answer these fundamental questions: What’s the value of a single feature in a smartphone or tablet? And is it worth more if the inventor has a reputation for being cool? That’s the crux of arguments to be made Wednesday when the top U.S. patent court in Washington hears an appeal in one of two remaining cases in the “s