U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Samsung's Appeal in Years-Old 'Slide to Unlock' Lawsuit With Apple

The lawsuit, from 2011, is so old that slide-to-unlock isn't even used on iPhones anymore.

Rather, we’ve come full circle and are now back to “slide to unlock”, but now we slide a new direction!

Samsung is way too obsessed with Apple. And that's bad Karma.

thank glob. when will this madness end??

SCOTUS should fine Samsung another $100 million for wasting its time.

Samsung is way too obsessed with Apple. And that's bad Karma.

Huh? Apple is the one who sued Samsung over something that they should never had been able to get patented in the first place.

If anyone is obsessed, it is Apple is obsessed with Samsung, they sue them over this, they sue them over the phone being rectangular with rounded corners, etc.

Then Apple ends up copying Samsung with the iPhone X (Seriously it is the Note 8 without a stylus or fingerprint sensor) and does Samsung sue Apple? No, they do make fun of the missing features (and rightfully so), but not sue. So again, Apple is obsessed with Samsung, not the other way around.
[doublepost=1510012087][/doublepost]

You think Samsung built an empire off of "slide to unlock"? I don't think so. I question how that is even a patent-able thing.

I do sports photography and there is a company that has a patent for organizing photos of sports participants based on a tag number (like runners, bikers, etc..). They go after any photographer that creates a gallery of sports photos organized by tag number.

When patents are awarded for very simplistic common sense things, it really creates the environment for these ongoing patent cases that benefit no one but the lawyers.

All too true, something as basic as slide to unlock or rectangular with rounded corners should never have been granted a patent in the first place.

The arrogance of silicon valley attorneys never ceases to amaze. How much did they charge to convince Samsung it was worth a shot at the supreme court level where it probably had a less than 1% chance of being heard?

Good grief.

Believe it or not, more often than not the attorneys say "you're probably not going to win this" and the client demands the attempt anyway.