A U.S. appeals court has reinstated a $119.6 million award for Apple in a long-running smartphone design patent dispute with rival Samsung.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Friday that two Apple smartphone design patents, one related to a-slide-to-unlock feature, are valid and Samsung infringed a third patent related to helping smartphone users find phone numbers.
The case goes back five years, when Apple first filed a series of patent lawsuits against Samsung, alleging infringement of several Apple's iPhone design patents.
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