Professor Mark Lemley is cited in this Washington Post article for his arguments against a recent ruling in the patent battle between Apple and Samsung which could pose a “serious risk to all high-tech inventions” if not reversed. 
Leading tech companies including Google, Facebook, Dell, and eBay are weighing in on Samsung’s side in the latest skirmish in Apple’s long-running patent war over Android.

Earlier this month, a coalition of eight tech giants filed a friend of the court brief in the Federal Circuit court of appeals, which hears all appeals in patent cases. The tech firms agree with Samsung that a key damages calculation approved by a three-judge panel of the appellate court in May not only misread patent law, but if not reversed, would pose a serious risk to all high-tech inventions.

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The new brief from Google and others echoes arguments in the case made earlier by leading intellectual property scholars led by Stanford Law School’s Mark Lemley. Attributing the total value of Samsung’s devices to their rectangular shape, the law professors argued, follows neither the law nor common sense. “People don’t buy iPhones simply because they look cool; they buy them because they function.”