Google, Facebook, eBay, Dell, HP and other big tech corporations supported Samsung in a court case against Apple.
Industry giants asked the panel to review its decision ordering Samsung to turn over profits from a handful of Apple patent infringements.
“If allowed to stand, that decision will lead to absurd results and have a devastating impact on companies, including [the briefing draftees], who spend billions of dollars annually on research and development for complex technologies and their components,” the group wrote in its brief to the court. They believe that such a decision can result in growing flows of IT-related patent lawsuits.
According to the companies, the nature of smartphones and smart TVs, which contain thousands of working parts and software, is too complex to lump all its elements into one convenient legal definition of patent infringement, especially in cases when only selected design elements appear to have been copied.
Apple, in its turn, said that Google has a direct stake in the battle being the company behind the Android mobile platform installed on most Samsung devices. So, the company asked for the dismissal of Google's involvement in the amicus brief as its stance is not impartial.
