Nokia Files a Document to Support Apple's Request to Block Sale of Samsung Products

As noted by Reuters, Nokia this week filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in support of Apple's bid to block the sale of certain Samsung products previously ruled to have infringed on Apple's patents.

The brief, which is currently sealed but explained in a summary (via AppleInsider) by Nokia attorney Keith Broyles, argues that Judge Lucy Koh was wrong when she ruled that Apple must establish a "causal nexus" between the patented feature and demand for a product before a permanent injunction request is granted.

The filing comes several months after Judge Koh had denied Apple's injunction request.

Nokia's brief wasn't filed specifically to support Apple, but because Nokia feels that Judge Koh's ruling "could cause wide-ranging damage to the United States patent protection landscape." Broyles goes on to argue that Nokia is advocating for patent rights to foster innovation.

"Nokia has recently been involved in numerous U.S. patent lawsuits, as both a plaintiff and defendant. Nokia is thus both a significant patent owner that might seek an injunction to protect its patent rights, and a manufacturer in an industry in which patent owners routinely issue threats of injunctions for patent infringement."

Back in 2009, Apple and Nokia were embroiled in a patent dispute but that ended in 2011 when the two settled and entered into a patent license agreement.

Nokia is the only company to file in support of Apple, and will have an opportunity for companies and advocacy groups to support its position when it files its own brief later this year.[MacRumors]

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Samsung's New Teaser Video of The Galaxy S IV Keeps Things Under Wraps

Now that Samsung has confirmed that the Galaxy S IV will be revealed in a grand event in New York on March 14, mobile nerds only have one mystery to mull over — what is the damn thing going to look like? Well, Samsung isn’t telling just yet, but it has seen fit to release the first in a series of strange teaser videos for its newest flagship handset.

The clip stars a young lad who, for reasons beyond comprehension, has been entrusted with a carefully packaged Galaxy S IV to tote around in broad daylight — expect the little guy to pop up at the official launch event in just over a week.

Sadly, any of you hoping against hope that Samsung would deign to give us any new info on the GSIV will be very disappointed. All the video really reveals is that the device will fit comfortably inside a 1 ft x 1 ft cube, and that it’s potentially as radiant as, well, whatever was in Marcellus Wallace’s briefcase all those years ago.

The rumored spec sheet paints a slightly more sober portrait of the device — the Galaxy S IV is expected to pack a 4.99-inch 1080p Super AMOLED display, one of Samsung’s newfangled Exynos Octa chipsets, 2GB of RAM, and a 13-megapixel camera. It’s hardly a shock, but all those components will be reportedly shoved into another largely plastic chassis (or so says storied Russian leaker Eldar Murtazin, who correctly called the March 14 unveiling date). At this point Samsung is one of the last big Android device players that hasn’t yet unveiled its 2013 flagship phone and that’s probably just the way they like it, but we’ll soon see how devices like HTC’s One, Sony’s Xperia Z, and LG’s Optimus G Pro will fare on the market after Samsung drops its bomb later this month. [TechCrunch]

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