A Tokyo court has ruled that Samsung Electronics' smartphones and tablets didn’t infringe an Apple invention for synchronizing music and video data with servers.
“It’s hard to believe the products belong to the range of technologies of the claimant,” Tokyo District Judge Tamotsu Shoji announced in dismissing Apple’s case. The judge also ordered Apple to pay the costs of the lawsuit.
The court ruling pushed Samsung shares up 0.7% on the Korean floor. "We welcome the court's decision, which confirmed our long-held position that our products do not infringe Apple's intellectual property," Samsung said in a statement. Meanwhile a representative of Apple in Japan didn’t comment the verdict.
