`Apple patent claims mostly not strong'
Authors of ‘The Knockoff Economy’ says iPhone maker itself copycat of a sortBy Kim Yoo-chulUCLA law professor Kal Raustiala, left, and NYU law professor Christopher Jon Sprigman, coauthor the best-selling book, “The Knockoff Economy.”Two authors of the bestselling book, “The Knockoff Economy,” say that the jury’s billion-dollar verdict against Samsung Electronics in a patent suit filed by Apple was “mostly wrong.”“We don’t think Apple — or anyone else — should own the rectangle shape of a phone or tablet,” Christopher Jon Sprigman and Kal Raustiala said in a recent written interview.“We think that patents that cover those shapes should never have been granted in the first place,” they said. “Some of the other Apple patents in that litigation seem to us similarly weak.”Sprigman is a law professor at the New York University, while Raustiala is a professor at both UCLA School of Law and the International Institute.“Samsung is a great example as innovation through ‘twea
