On July 15th the US International Trade Commission made a preliminary ruling upholding two claims in a far larger patent suit Apple had filed against its rival.

在7月15日苹果公司向其对手提出的很大的专利诉讼中，美国国际贸易委员会作出了一个初步裁定支持了其两个请求。

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The preliminary ruling follows an anonymous request in May to re-examine some of Apple's patents for touch-screen heuristics.

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Samsung has submitted the preliminary ruling from the patent office to judge Lucy Koh, who is considering appeals.

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Following the preliminary ruling by US District Judge Richard Sullivan in New York, Apple has dropped plans to ask shareholders to vote on whether to abolish a contractual right that the company currently enjoys to issue such preference shares without limit.

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