Samsung Ordered to Post Big Bond

Having found a bunch of Android-based Samsung widgets violate four Apple patents, the US International Trade Commission has ordered the giant Korean company to post a bond worth 88% of its US smartphones sales as well as 32.5 % of its media player and 37.6% of its tablet sales if it want to keep selling the things. The decision, which is largely backed by the agency’s staff, is preliminary, subject to the affirmation of the ITC’s six-man board of commissioners and the White House. The commissioners are supposed to decide by February 25 and the president 60 days later. At that point Samsung could be looking at an import blackout.

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