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Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. must stop selling some smartphones and tablet computers in South Korea and pay damages after a Seoul court ruled they infringed on each other's patents. Apple, maker of the iPhone, violated two Samsung patents related to mobile-data transfer technologies, the Seoul Central District Court said today. Samsung, the world's largest mobile- phone maker, infringed one Apple patent related to a "bounce- back" touchscreen feature, though the Suwon, South Korea-based company didn't copy the design of the iPhone, the court said. Cupertino, California-based Apple must stop selling the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad 1 and iPad 2, while Samsung must stop selling 12 products including the Galaxy S, Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab, the court said in a statement. Apple must pay Samsung 40 million won ($35000), and the Korean company must pay its US rival 25 million won, the court said. "The ruling is in line with what we had expected," Im Jeong Jae, a Seoul-based fund manager at Shinhan BNP Paribas Asset Management Co., which oversees about $29 billion, said by phone today. "What's important is how the verdict that's coming out soon in the US will affect other pending cases in places like Europe and Australia." Four Continents Samsung didn't have an immediate comment on the ruling, Nam Ki Yung, a Seoul-based spokesman for the company, said by phone. Two phone calls to Steve Park, a Seoul-based spokesman for Apple, went answered. Shares of Samsung fell 1.1 <b>...</b> |
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