U.S judge favours Apple over Samsung in claim construction order

After a brief lull the long drawn Apple - Samsung lawsuit is back in the news. At a recent hearing of the case in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, Judge Lucy Koh, reportedly sided with Apple in the claim construction orders that she released. A claim construction order, essentially is deciding in on the meaning of certain terms that feature during the course of such lawsuits. A claim construction order is important because knowing the meaning of a lot of these terms, helps in defining the scope of one’s patent rights, for one, and in some instances also has the ability to direct the course of the litigation. Foss Patents in a related post stated, "Apple generally wins much more favorable claim constructions in federal courts than at the ITC, in general and especially when the same patents are at issue -- in this case, it happened with a patent on "ellipse fitting for multi-touch interfaces." Click here for full story