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Apple Wins Injunction Barring U.S. Sales of Samsung Galaxy Nexus Phone
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Dammit Apple, please spend your money on something exciting. You've got so much money, you could really change the world with it. And instead you're spending it on lawyers! Stop this pointless war. No one can win this patent war apart from lawyers.
Even in the UK, I very rarely - if ever - hear 100 million expressed as 1 billion.
Yeah release more phones so they could play out faster. Great strategy man. To play that games means you'll end up with all types of unsold junk on he market and that would devalue your company some what.
Problem is, Apple got patents that are ridiculous. A patent on searching multiple sources of information on a interface.
I'm curious what other search engine makers are going to say about this, especially Google.
Don't other companies get a chance to challenge patents? The devil is presumably in the detail.
Apple didn't lost sales because of Android it's search engine. No consumer considers the search engine when buying a phone.
And Apple isn't the first with combining multiple sources of information. Most search engines do this, like Google. So this patent is non-sense.
It's hardly justice.
Ok sell your iPad and MacBook to me for $30 bucks then you can buy yourself zombie phone all you want to. Samesung is behaving like a children, copying everything Apple has to offer.
Read the article again and stop being a whiner.
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The patent was approved. Samsung seemingly infringed it. I'm not aware of Google or others having challenged the patent in court.
On the face of it, seems strange that the patent was approved but as I say, the devil is in the detail. Presumably Samsung have infringed the patents where others have found a way to avoid doing so.
Really? Cause Samsung is doing quite well
Galaxy S2, Galaxy Note, Galaxy SIII and all the inbetween models for particular markets such in india, asia and europe who don't care so much for apple. HTC has a nice range of great phones also, all very good when released multiple times in the space that apple does so. Unsold junk I don't think you understand how their business strategy works.
Not all feature will go to the older devices, that's true, but they still get a lot. the core is updated with added APIs on which new apps will be built and be compatible. Look at 3GS and compare the features it came out with and the current features due to OS updates, i think they got much more than they asked for. I think its pretty much done. Nobody expected 3GS to get iOS6. its good.
I'm like seriously thinking about how you type like a 12 year old. Dum dum!
Or is that vocab you've picked up from your daughter?
Does anybody here understand what FRAND is ?
Yes, and it has nothing to do with this topic.
This is why I've started to hate Apple over the last two years. But Google should fire right back at them. Because Apple totally stole the drop down notification menu from Android. You can't deny it.
Of course it's not the hardware!
This is a strategic software patent win... It sets a precedent for all other android phones that implement the same features that the patents cover.
If Apple win at trial then they are more likely to gain injunction against other Android devices and force them to be modified... Thus differentiating them from iPhone.
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In the metric system 100 million require another 900 million to reach a billion...
This is a strategic software patent win... It sets a precedent for all other android phones that implement the same features that the patents cover.
If Apple win at trial then they are more likely to gain injunction against other Android devices and force them to be modified... Thus differentiating them from iPhone.
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In the metric system 100 million require another 900 million to reach a billion...
After reading this whole topic, I'm surprised everyone is talking as if Samsung and the Galaxy Nexus have been found to infringe the patents in question. People, this is a preliminary injunction, there has not been a ruling on whether anyone infringes anything at this point. This is what is frustrating. Go to court, both sides tell their stories, patents are affirmed/invalidated and when the dust settles and the ruling comes down, then issue injunctions for sale on infringing devices.
Placing sales ban on devices that "might or might not infringe" is what is insane here, no matter who is the plaintiff and who is the defendant.
Placing sales ban on devices that "might or might not infringe" is what is insane here, no matter who is the plaintiff and who is the defendant.
Did Google patent it? If not, there's not an issue. If they did, I imagine that Apple have worked around the patent or licenced it. Would be too risky for Apple not to do so.
Consider the differences in litigation... Sammy and Moto-Google are litigating against Apple with patents they have committed under FRAND licensing to anyone in the market and are already receiving fees for... Apple are litigating for patents they have solely applied for and won. AKA the scroll bounce, the data highlighting on mobile device amongst the current GUI matters in court... Not to mention trade-dress litigation... No wonder the Gax-III looks so different than the others.
I'm genuinely surprised that "A means of displaying a number pad for the purpose of enabling the user to enter, and dial a phone number" isn't in there.
Seriously, these are all common sense features.
1. Just a simplified way of copying/pasting the information into the appropriate app.
2. Google are a SEARCH company. Of course they're going to have advanced searching features. They'd be fools not to.
3. This may be one of the stronger cases but again, it is an obvious and simple way for users to unlock their phone.
4. Auto-correct....really? In this day and age that should be standard on almost any computing device.
I honestly can't see them winning this one. In my opinion they should be losing a few patents along with the court case.