Mises Daily: Thursday, September 19, 2013
by David S. D'Amato
As the legal
melee between Apple and Samsung continues, the “patent wars” are again
front-page news. During August of this year, the International Trade
Commission, successor to the Progressive Era-founded Tariff Commission,
announced that Samsung can no longer import into the U.S. certain mobile
devices. The Commission found that the subject products infringe on a number of
Apple’s patents, but the president may still veto its decision regarding
importation. As it happens, when the reverse scenario came about in June, and
the Commission banned Apple from importing products infringing on Samsung
patents, Obama did wield his veto. The legal and political drama at hand is
just the latest installment in an ongoing string of lawsuits aimed at
protecting, in the words of The New Yorker’s Nicholas Thompson, “patents
that are often either inscrutable or mundane.”….To Read More….
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