SKorean court rules Samsung didn't copy iPhone

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? South Korean phone maker Samsung won a home court ruling Friday in its global patent battle against Apple and its popular iPhone and iPad devices.

Judges in Seoul said Samsung Electronics Co. didn't copy the look and feel of the iPhone and ruled that Apple infringed on Samsung's wireless technology.

However, the judges also said Samsung violated Apple's technology behind a feature that causes a screen to bounce back when a user scrolls to an end image. Both sides were ordered to pay limited damages.

The Seoul Central District Court ruling called for a partial ban on products from both companies, though the verdict did not affect the latest-generation phones ? Apple's iPhone 4S or Samsung's Galaxy S III ? or the newest iPad. Both sides were also ordered to pay limited damages.

The ban applies only to sales in South Korea, and the ruling is part of a larger, epic struggle over patents and innovation unfolding in nine countries. The biggest stakes are in the U.S., where Apple is seeking $2.5 billion from Samsung over allegations it has created illegal knockoffs of iPhones and iPads.

The South Korean ruling is not expected to affect the U.S. case. On Friday, a federal jury in San Jose, California, began its third day of deliberations. A federal judge has ordered jurors there to refrain accessing any news regarding the two companies.

Nonetheless, the Seoul ruling was a rare victory for Samsung in its arguments that Apple has infringed on its wireless technology patents. Those arguments previously have been shot down by courts in Europe, where judges have ruled that they are part of industry standards that must be licensed under fair terms to competitors.

"This is basically Samsung's victory on its home territory," said patent attorney Jeong Woo-sung. "Out of nine countries, Samsung got the ruling that it wanted for the first time in South Korea."

The ruling ordered Apple to remove the iPhone 3GS, the iPhone 4, the original iPad and the iPad 2 from store shelves in South Korea, saying that the products infringed on two of Samsung's five disputed patents, including those for telecommunications technology. South Korea is not a big market for Apple.

The court also denied Apple's claim that Samsung had illegally copied its design, ruling that big rectangular screens in cases with rounded corners had existed in products before the iPhone and iPad.

"It is not possible to assert that these two designs are similar based only on the similarity of those features," the court said in a ruling issued in Korean and translated into English by The Associated Press. It also said individual icons in the Samsung products do not appear similar to the icons Apple used in the iPhone.

But the court ruled that Samsung had infringed on one of Apple's patents, covering the bounce-back feature. The court banned sales of Samsung products using the technology, including the older Galaxy S II, in South Korea.

Court spokesman Kim Mun-sung said the court's ruling was to take effect immediately, although companies often request that sanctions be suspended while they evaluate their legal options, such as an appeal.

Nam Ki-yung, a spokesman for Samsung, said the ruling "affirmed our position that one single company cannot monopolize generic design features."

Apple did not respond to multiple calls seeking comment.

The court ordered each company to pay monetary compensation to its competitor. Samsung must pay Apple 25 million won ($22,000) while Apple must pay its rival 40 million won.

Some industry watchers expressed concern over the South Korean ruling to protect industry standard patents. They say the decision could invite a trade war by giving Samsung and fellow South Korean company LG Electronics Inc. ? both industry standard patent holders ? more room to block rivals' entrance into South Korea if they don't agree to licensing terms.

"It would mean that foreign companies would either have to bow to Samsung's and LG's demands ... or stop selling in Korea," said Florian Mueller, a patent expert in Munich, Germany, who has been closely following the case.

Courts in Europe, including Netherlands, France, Italy and Germany, have rejected similar claims by Samsung that Apple violated its wireless patents, with judges arguing that the patents have become part of industry standards. Standard-essential patents are a crucial technology for new players to make products compatible with the rest of the market and must be licensed under fair and reasonable terms.

Europe's antitrust regulator launched an investigation earlier this year into whether Samsung was failing to license those patents under fair and reasonable terms.

In Friday's ruling, the South Korean court said Samsung did not abuse its market power as an industry standard patent holder.

Samsung, which is based in Suwon, South Korea, filed a complaint in South Korea against Apple shortly after Apple filed its lawsuit in the U.S.

Apple claims some of Samsung's smartphones and tablet computers are illegal knockoffs of Apple's iPhone and iPad. Samsung denies the allegations and argues that all companies in the cutthroat phone industry mimic each other's successes without crossing the legal line. Apple, which is based in Cupertino, California, wants $2.5 billion and Samsung's most popular products pulled from the U.S. market.

The battle is more complex as Apple and Samsung are not only competitors in the fast-growing global market for smartphones and tablet computers, but also have a close business relationship.

Samsung, the world's biggest manufacturer of memory chips and liquid crystal displays, supplies some of the key components that go into Apple products, including mobile chips that work as a brain of the iPhone and the iPad.

The South Korean firm overtook Apple in less than three years in smartphone markets. In the second quarter of this year, Samsung sold 50.2 million units of smartphones, nearly twice as many as Apple's 26 million units, according to IDC.

Despite the ruling that is widely seen as Samsung's victory, Samsung's share fell 0.9 percent in Seoul.

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AP Business Writer Kelvin Chan in Hong Kong contributed to this report.

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Missouri woes are latest for GOP in Senate quest

WASHINGTON (AP) ? It's not just Todd Akin. The fallout from the Missouri Senate candidate's "legitimate rape" comment was the latest signal that the Republican path to the majority in the Senate may have just gotten tougher.

Democratic prospects have improved in states where Republicans had long been favored, like North Dakota and Arizona. And Republicans also now face the possibility of losing a seat in Maine.

The GOP argues that it still has a strong path to power, given improved prospects in states like Wisconsin, Nevada and Connecticut.

On Capitol Hill, Republicans are expected to keep control of the House and need to gain four seats claim the Senate majority? or three if Mitt Romney is elected, making Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan the tie-breaking vote.

Which party controls the Senate has vast influence over the future of major policies, such as President Barack Obama's health care law and the tax code, as well as the makeup of the Supreme Court. Four of nine current justices are over the age of 70.

If Republicans win control of the Senate and hang onto the House majority, a second-term Obama would find it difficult to pass any major legislation without great compromise. On the other hand, if Republican Mitt Romney wins and the GOP controls Congress, Romney could have an easy time pushing through his agenda to repeal Obama's health care overhaul and Wall Street regulations.

Multiple factors appeared to be working in Republicans' favor as this campaign cycle began. One-third of the Senate is up for grabs every other year, and this year, Democrats have 21 seats to defend, while Republicans have just 10. A still-sluggish economy, high unemployment and a Democratic president with an approval rating under 50 percent offered the GOP reasons for optimism.

But the Senate terrain now looks less dreary for Democrats.

The latest blow for Republicans came Sunday.

Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, widely regarded as the most vulnerable Democrat up for re-election this year, watched her opponent, Rep. Akin, start to implode when he said in an interview that women's bodies can shut down pregnancies in cases of what he called "legitimate rape." Although Akin repeatedly apologized, top Republicans demanded he drop out and vowed to deprive him of funds should he stay in the race, as Akin has vowed to do.

That episode came six months after the surprise retirement announcement from Sen. Olympia Snowe, a popular Republican in left-leaning Maine. It created a major opening for Democrats, who were favored to pick up the seat until Angus King, the state's independent former governor, entered the race. Although King has refused to say which party he will caucus with if he wins the seat, both parties expect him to cast his lot with Democrats, making it a loss for Republicans.

In other states, the GOP shifts in fortune have been more subtle.

Democrats are playing defense in North Dakota, where Sen. Kent Conrad is retiring.

The state's other Senate seat and sole House seat both flipped from Democratic to Republican in 2010, and conservatives have been bullish about GOP Rep. Rick Berg's prospects for completing the clean sweep. But even Republicans acknowledge the race has become more competitive, with the GOP outside group Crossroads spending more than $700,000 on ads hitting Democrat Heidi Heitkamp, a huge amount in a state where advertising is relatively cheap.

Heitkamp, a former state attorney general, has eschewed her party's label by criticizing Obama whenever opportunities present ? on domestic energy, for instance, a hot issue in North Dakota. Berg has relentlessly pinned Heitkamp to Obama and his health care law, both of which are unpopular there and which Heitkamp praised before launching her campaign.

In Arizona, Republican Rep. Jeff Flake was expected to coast to a seat left open by the retiring Sen. Jon Kyl. But real estate mogul Wil Cardon has pummeled Flake on the airwaves, spending $6 million of his own money on mostly negative TV ads.

Flake still is the heavy favorite in Tuesday's primary. But if he wins, he'll enter the general election with just $1.7 million in the bank, slightly less than Democrat Richard Carmona. A former U.S. surgeon general and son of Puerto Rican immigrants, Carmona has Democrats enthused over his perceived appeal to independents and the state's growing Hispanic population.

"There's far too much extreme, vitriolic attacks," Carmona said on Friday, "and I think the public is tired of that."

Republicans have seen their prospects brighten elsewhere in recent months. And they say they're nimble enough to redirect their resources to achieve maximum effect.

"Missouri is clearly a setback if Congressman Akin chooses to remain in the race," said National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Brian Walsh. "On the flip side, Republicans still have a number of great opportunities to win back seats in other states across the country."

Wisconsin Republicans have their most viable general-election candidate in former Gov. Tommy Thompson, who edged out three conservatives with closer ties to the tea party in a hard-fought August primary. A CBS-New York Times poll released Thursday showed Thompson 6 points ahead of Rep. Tammy Baldwin, one of the House's most consistent liberals. And GOP enthusiasm may be higher in Wisconsin now that Romney has tapped Ryan, one of the state's congressmen, as his running mate.

To the west, Nevada Rep. Shelley Berkley, the state's Democratic Senate nominee, is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee. For Berkley, it's an inopportune time for the panel to be examining whether she used her position to benefit her family's financial interests. Berkley has said there was no conflict of interest.

Republicans are also eyeing opportunities in Connecticut, where former wrestling executive Linda McMahon is making a second go at a seat after losing in 2010, and in Florida and Virginia. Those two presidential battlegrounds have competitive Senate races likely to be overshadowed by the deluge of spending by Romney and Obama.

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Associated Press writer Henry C. Jackson contributed.

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Nearly 1 million used London public transit during Olympics

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LONDON ? According to London 2012 organizers, 900,000 people used public transit provided by the Olympic Delivery Authority, including shuttles, special light rail and bike routes. The subway saw a record 60 million users during the Games, according to a Business Insider report.

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