Today, a U.S. appeals court judge rejected Apple's request to expedite their appeal on the lawsuit ruling last Thursday that found that Samsung did not willfully and knowingly take Apple's intellectual property.
In its ruling today, the Federal U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. said that a three-judge panel first has to consider Apple's appeal, and only after that would the full appeals court decide whether to hear the case.
The ruling, appeal, and request to expedite the appeal, all have to do with Apple seeking a permanent ban on the sale of several old Samsung phones, which Apple has been trying to attain since it won a $1.05 billion verdict against Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., in the much-talked-about copyright infringement trial last year.
The ruling today allows Samsung to keep selling its phones for much longer, while Apple has to take its appeal through the whole appeals process, which will take a while. Samsung phones run on the Android operating system, which the late Steve Jobs once denounced as a "stolen product," according to the Reuters report on the Apple vs. Samsung proceedings.
The same appeals court which rejected Apple's request to fast-track their appeal also rejected a separate request by Apple for a pretrial sales ban of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
In other Apple vs. Samsung news, last night, during the Super Bowl, Samsung ran a commercial which included a line widely believed to be a passing wise-crack at Apple. The ad, which featured Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen, Bob Odenkirk, and LeBron James, included the line "Celebrity endorsements: Very big, very big. You know anybody?"
Samsung usually doesn't use celebrities to plug their phone, but Apple is well known to hire big names like Zooey Deschanel and Samuel L. Jackson to advertise the iPhone.
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