U.S. Supreme Court leaves gap in Samsung-Apple patent ruling

[cdmagurus.com]

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of Samsung Electronics and its backers in the industry in a design patent dispute with Apple, when in a 8-0 decision it said that “the term ‘article of manufacture’ is broad enough to embrace both a product sold to a consumer and a component of that product, whether sold separately or not.”
But the top court has left a lot unsaid, including by not providing guidance to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (http://www.pcworld.com/article/3147670/mobile/supreme-court-kills-399m-patent-award-against-samsung-in-apple-case.html) on how the damages Samsung has to pay Apple for the infringement of smartphone design patents will have to be calculated. That could also delay for a long time the resolution of the patent dispute between Apple and Samsung, which has already dragged on for a number of years.
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