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"The US injunction on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus that Apple earned by way of a patent judge earlier this year has been reversed by an appeals court, reports Reuters. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that previously put a stay on the\u00A0injunction has ruled that the district court in California &amp;quot;abused its discretion in entering an injunction.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nThe preliminary injunction on the Samsung smartphone had been granted as of June 30th by U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh, who\u00A0eventually\u00A0conducted the Apple v. Samsung patent trial.\u00A0The ruling was based primarily on the\u00A08086604 patent, which is defined as a \u201Cuniversal interface for retrieval of information in a computer system.\u201D The full patent appears to relate to a unified search tool that can be used to find a variety of different items via one indexed database. This could also refer to a unified spoken word interface like Siri, or Google\u2019s voice search.\r\n\r\nAt the time, Koh said that\u00A0\u201CApple has articulated a plausible theory of irreparable harm\u201D due to a \u201Clong-term loss of market share\u201D and \u201Closses of downstream sales.\u201D\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSamsung argued, somewhat humiliatingly, that the sales of the Galaxy Nexus were so poor that they didn't pose a threat to Apple's iPhone and that the unified search feature was not essential to the success of its device. The appeals court apparently agrees, as it states in its\u00A0official order:\r\n...it may very\u00A0well be that the accused product would sell almost as well\u00A0without incorporating the patented feature. And in that\u00A0case, even if the competitive injury that results from\u00A0selling the accused device is substantial, the harm that\u00A0flows from the alleged infringement (the only harm that\u00A0should count) is not.\r\nApple won an enormous ruling in the trial earlier this year, with a jury granting a landslide victory on a variety of patents infringed on by an array of Samsung devices. Among those was the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. So, at this point, Samsung has managed to get the injunctions of both the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Nexus lifted, which is good news for them and good news for Android phone buyers, though neither product is as popular as its Galaxy S line of phones."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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