Samsung Gets Court Victory, Releases Galaxy S III Mini

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Just when it looked as if Samsung had been pushed to the wall in U.S. courts by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), it was buoyed by two pieces of good news. The first is that a federal appeals court reversed a decision which would have blocked sales of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Apple had argued, with success at the district court level, that because of Samsung’s violation of several of its patents, the South Korean firm should not be allowed to sell the smartphone in the America

The Mercury News reports:

The U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, a Washington, D.C.-based court that  hears patent appeals, found that U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh had no legal basis  to issue a preliminary injunction earlier this year against the Nexus   smartphone. The decision allows Samsung to continue to sell the product while  the patent battle with Apple continues.

In addition, Samsung is about to release a mini version of its wildly popular Galaxy S III. The Galaxy S III is the only realistic competitor to the Apple iPhone 5.

USA Today reports:

The Galaxy S III mini features a 4-inch touchscreen and runs on the latest version of Google’s Android mobile operating system. The company did not release  details on pricing or availability.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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