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get your fill of patents Pat's better maps and creepy ops I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update the never ending global patent battle between Apple and Samsung can seem pretty ridiculous at times apple says Samsung copied the iPad and samsung says Apple copies their software patents and it just goes back and forth and back and forth but you're going to get a kick out of the latest development in London a judge says that Samsung did not copy the iPad but that's not all the judge ordered Apple to publish a statement saying that Samsung do not copy the iPads design and they had to put this notice on the Apple UK website and in British newspapers for six months it's in order to correct any bad impressions apple gave about Samsung of course this will be torture for Apple because who wants to advertise anything about a competitor but the judge didn't care and regardless if you're an apple fan or an android fan you can't deny this is a hysterical twist to the bitter patent war now let's just see how Apple chooses to word the statement wonder if they'll be sarcastic or put it in size by font type nokia has promised something amazing to come on September 7th amazing in the same sentence as Nokia yeah okay please do show us something amazing because I would be thrilled for a change of pace nokia just posted a 1.7 billion dollar net loss for the quarter it needs all the amazing it can get we finally have a due date for microsoft's baby windows 8 will arrive october 26 what you think I was going to mention the surface tablet yeah no word on that delivery date and if you're still hanging on to windows XP or Vista you won't be able to try the new microsoft office 2013 because they said it will only work on Windows 7 and Windows 8 if you use Bing for maps well you'll see it slightly better with some higher res graphics maps will be a more important battleground for smartphones in the coming months because Google is launching 3d views and so is Apple with its own map app Foursquare users will notice that merchants can post status updates to communicate with loyal customers it's called local updates and if you checked in often somewhere or mark that you like a place you'll see updates from that place in your feed remember the app highlight it was the talk of the week when it debuted at the south by southwest festival and reactions were mixed it lets you know who is near you and what you have in common and most saw it is kind of creepy without much value but it just came out with an update it now lets you post to people who are nearby regardless of any connection with them so it's designed to be like a super local twitter feed let me know if you end up buying useful purpose for it by emailing me at update at cnet com that's it for now but you can catch all the details in today's stories as soona calm / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey