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 Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500)
 alleged that several Samsung products infringe on its patents. Apple 
originally filed this lawsuit against Samsung in 2011, and it's just one
 of dozens of ongoing patent lawsuits currently being waged between the 
tech titans across the globe. In this latest case, the International Trade Commission ruled in favor 
of Apple. The commission said Samsung products infringed on two Apple 
patents, one for touchscreen multitouch and another related to headset 
plug detection. The court ruled Samsung did not infringe on four other 
patents listed in Apple's claim. 
 
The ITC banned Samsung from 
importing or selling some devices that infringe on the Apple patents. 
While the devices Apple mentioned in the case are older Samsung products
 -- like the Galaxy Tab 7 tablet and the Continuum smartphone -- the 
ITC's ruling could have implications for phones currently on the market 
that use the same technology. 
 
But Samsung has the chance to 
release software updates to work around the infringement -- for example,
 customers would still use multitouch the same way they always did, but 
Samsung would change how that worked from a technical perspective. 
 
Tech companies like to bring their cases before the ITC because it's 
generally easier to get that court to ban the sale of patent-violating 
products, when compared with the traditional patent court system. 
 
 U.S. import bans are obviously serious concerns for foreign companies 
like South Korea-based Samsung. But they're just as problematic for 
those headquartered in America because most tech products -- including 
Apple's -- are assembled overseas and must be imported. 
 
Even if
 Samsung weren't able to figure out a workaround, there's a chance the 
ITC's import ban won't stick. Earlier this summer the ITC ruled on 
Samsung's own 2011 filing against Apple -- and it ended with the agency 
issuing an import ban
 on Apple products. But the ITC is required by law to send such 
"exclusion orders" to the president for a 60-day review. In an extremely
 rare move, President Obama vetoed that ITC order just before the review
 period was up. 
 
SOURCE: CNN

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