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01
Dec
2019

Apple wins over Conversant in smartphone interface dispute:

In a recent ruling by the English High court, Conversant's patent claiming early smartphone capabilities is termed to be invalid due to its' obviousness. The ruling has gone in favor of Apple.
Conversant accused Apple's iPhone x of infringing it's U.K.'s patent. The particular arguments of the former was against the later's Widgets and "Home Screen Quick Action Windows" features.The patent, entitled ‘Computing device with improved user interface for applications’, was originally issued to Symbian, a joint venture including Nokia and Ericsson. Conversant acquired this patent, which claimed priority from a 200 filing, as a part of wider portfolio. Among the claims, the Claim 1 of the patent covered a smartphone display screen with a hierarchical menu screen and summary window for each of several different applications.Conversant argued that the Widgets and HSQAW features on the iPhone X infringed this claim.
Apple cited two examples of prior art and argued that patent was invalid and obvious. Apple produced the extracts from the "Windows 98 for Dummies" book, explaining the Microsoft Outlook application of the time and another one was the 1994 manual for an IBM device called "Simon".
The Justice said that Apple's iPhone X would infringe the Conversant patent if it was valid, but that the foundational claims of the 2003 patent were already known in 1994. Hence, the Justice termed that the Conversant patent was invalid in light of the IBM device.
The Court also rejected the obviousness argument based on the 'Windows 98 for Dummies' extract, finding that it contained too much detail to be compressed down into a smartphone screen.

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