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I'm confused. How can it be that Apple supposedly infringes _none_ of Samsung's patents?



I'm not sure if that was decided. The jury decided the patents were exhausted because Apple's suppliers had already been licensed. (Qualcomm I think).

It is the general case that you can't demand two licenses for the same patent in the same product. If the 3G chip has a license then so does the phone it is built into.


Patent exhaustion.

Qualcomm had a license to Samsung patents which is the component supplier that Apple was using.




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