Samsung’s Amicus Filers Back Obviousness Question In Patent Suit With Apple

Mealey's (April 13, 2017, 1:01 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nonprofit organizations for civil liberties filed an amicus curiae brief on April 10 in support of the U.S. Supreme Court deciding Samsung Electronics Co.’s petition on whether Graham v. John Deere Co., 383 U.S. 1 (1966), and KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc., 550 U.S. 398 (2007), require a court to hold patents obvious under 35 U.S. Code Section 103, “where the patents make at most trivial advances over technologies well-known to a person of skill in the art” (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., et al. v. Apple Inc., No. 16-1102, U.S. Sup.)....