Samsung wins app store patent appeal 04-03-2021 20-10-2016 Samsung secured a win in the Federal Circuit court of appeals on Tuesday, March 2, which overturned a lower-court ruling that upheld a computer hardware company’s app store patent. Rain Computers sued Samsung last year claiming the Korean tech giant infringed its app store patent (US patent number 9,805,349), which details a method of delivering apps to devices from a web store. The United States District Court of Massachusetts ruled on February 12, 2020, that the Rain Computers patent was not indefinite, but also ruled that Samsung did not infringe. This prompted Rain to appeal the case with the Federal Circuit.