Apple has won a new round in its patent battle against Samsung, at the US International Trade Commission this time. In a suit brought by Samsung, the judge found that Apple didn't violate Samsung's patent rights, Bloomberg reports. The judge's findings are subject to review by the full commission. The judge said there was no infringement of any of the four patents in the ITC case, and also determined that Samsung had not proven it had a domestic industry that used the patents, a requirement that is unique to the trade agency. The judge didn't provide the reasons behind his findings. The opinion will become public after both sides get a chance to redact confidential information. Apple has its own ITC complaint pending against Samsung, and the judge in that case is scheduled to release his findings 19 October. Samsung filed the trade complaint in June 2011, claiming Apple devices, including the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, have infringed as many as four patents. Two of the Samsung patents cover technology used in industrywide standards for the transmission of data. The other two are for device features -- one to detect phone numbers in an e-mail or web page, and another in which the document display page moves with the user's finger.
