FOSS PATENTS: Judge Koh declines to rule on Apple’s FRAND defenses against Samsung for lack of a need

Judge Lucy Koh, the federal judge presiding over two Apple v. Samsung lawsuits in the Northern District of California, has just issued her first ruling on issues raised at the post-trial hearing held a week ago (on December 6, 2012). It isn’t even a ruling in a narrow sense: the order just explains that the court [...]