Samsung has lost its High Court battle against Apple in the United Kingdom after a judge deemed that the patents the Korean company was using in its case should have never been granted.

Apple has now fended off 24 patent-infringement claims from Samsung, and Samsung’s bid to secure a 2.4% royalty on every 3G-equipped device the Cupertino company sells is looking increasingly unlikely.

Judge Christopher Floyd ruled that Apple’s products do not infringe Samsung’s patents that cover the ability to send and receive information over a 3G data network. Furthermore, Floyd found the uses existed in prior art, meaning Samsung’s patents are invalid.

What the world need is the UK Judges to sit on every patent lawsuit and use its common sense approach to bringing these nonsense cases from both sides to swift conclusions. All that is happening is that the lawyers are dreaming of their next luxury holiday whilst innovation potentially gets stifled.