Apple says Galaxy Nexus infringes slide-to-unlock utility model in Germany : A few hours after pronouncing a ruling on one of Samsung's numerous lawsuits against Apple , the Mannheim Regional Court held a hearing on one of Apple's many infringement lawsuits against Samsung. Today's hearing relate to a Gebrauchsmuster ("utility model"), which is an intellectual property right that could be vaguely described as a fast-track patent that comes with various limitations. Companies are free to file for patents and utility models on the same invention (or on closely related inventions), and that's what Apple did with its ever-more-famous slide-to-unlock image invention. Stemming from the same original application, two manifestations of this intellectual property right exist in parallel in the German market: a patent ( EP1964022 as well as a German utility model ( DE212006000081 ). By now I have watched three German court hearings related to the slide-to-unlock inven...
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