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One of the run-of-the-mill pre-trial motions between Apple and Samsung turns out to have not been so run-of-the-mill.

Electronista says Judge Lucy Coe issued a summary judgment ahead of patent infringement

suit number two between the two companies.

In the ruling, Judge Coe found Samsung guilty of infringing an apple patent covering its autocorrect functionality.

That bit of bad news for Samsung could be bad news for other members of the Android Army as well.

According to the report, the autocorrect patent, Sam... other members of the Android army as well.

According to the report, the autocorrect patent Sammy was found guilty of infringing

is actually used by most smartphones with no physical keyboard.

Electronista says that could spell future trouble for other

manufacturers as well as Google which incorporates the system into its

Android OS. That wasn't Samsung's only loss. In addition, Judge Cohen validated one of the five patents

over which Samsung had planned to sue Apple, saying that Apple had proved prior art on all of the Korean company's claims

according to the report. Kind of a bummer for Samsung. By the judge's own rules

they were only allowed to bring five patents to the next trial and now she's

thrown one of those away. The piece has false patents Florian Mueller saying

that those two rulings make Apple's chances of prevailing at trial look

pretty strong. They may also get Samsung's CEO ready to play Let's Make a

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