A Dutch court has banned certain Samsung Galaxy products that infringe on an Apple patent, reports IDG. The patent involves scrolling through photo galleries on a touchscreen, and the ban applies to Galaxy products that run Android 2.2.1 or newer versions, and don’t use Samsung’s proprietary photo gallery software.
Specifically, Apple has “patented a way to scroll past the edge of a zoomed-in photo and see a glimpse of the next in a series of images, after which the initial photo bounces back onto the screen, a technique that Samsung has used in its Galaxy products. Samsung’s proprietary photo gallery software replaces that bounce-back feature with a ‘blue flash’ that illuminates the edge of the image.” Samsung must pay Apple $129,000 each day it violates the ban.
This follows a recent Dutch court ruling that Samsung did not infringe on an Apple patent involving the use of two fingers on a touchscreen.
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