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Apple Wins Injunction Barring U.S. Sales of Samsung Galaxy Nexus Phone
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I know Apple owns the media in this country and now it appears they own the courts as well.
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Sent from my 7" Galaxy Tab2 before the bought Federal judge could stop me.
This.
Don't forget that Samsung holds like 12 patents on LTE. If I were them, I'd go after Apple and keep them from making an LTE iPhone.
You must be taking some pretty advanced computer science courses. I wish my introductory courses taught me how to invent capacitive multi-touch paradigms.
It's interesting even on an apple forum the majority of people see the idiocracy of what Apple is doing. If apple really wanted to beat Samsung and google they need to spend those millions on R&D instead of their lawyers. All of these lawsuits on stupid everyday common software uses like these should have been tossed in the patent offices trash can the day they came in. Apple takes two steps backwards and their competition keeps marching forward. Apple lost their way.
On Apple's side
I am on Apple's side. IP infringement simply has to stop. Apple has flexed a lot of R&D muscle, intellectual and financial, not to mention energy and time, to then have someone else copycat Apple's accomplishments and profit from them. Perhaps even more glaringly obvious than the Galaxy Nexus is the new Nexus 7 tablet which more closely resembles the iPad and iPhone than the Galaxy. Don't know about the Nexus 7 software but the design is piggybacking on Apple. We shall see.
I am on Apple's side. IP infringement simply has to stop. Apple has flexed a lot of R&D muscle, intellectual and financial, not to mention energy and time, to then have someone else copycat Apple's accomplishments and profit from them. Perhaps even more glaringly obvious than the Galaxy Nexus is the new Nexus 7 tablet which more closely resembles the iPad and iPhone than the Galaxy. Don't know about the Nexus 7 software but the design is piggybacking on Apple. We shall see.
Because Apple likely has a contract with Samsung to provide these parts. They probably extend the contracts well before the current contracts expire, so if Samsung decided to supply them, they would go and make Samsung's competitors like TSMC, LG, Sharp, etc a whole lot of money. Hell, if TSMC were to land a massive contract with Apple, they could potentially surpass Samsung in the semiconductor industry with the massive boost in revenue. That is not something Samsung is likely to gamble on considering the fact that they are making a hell of a lot of money off of selling to Apple. Notice how Samsung built a factory in Texas for the sole purpose of creating Apple processors. That should tell you all you need to know about how much money Samsung is making off the deal if they are spending hundreds of millions in overhead to increase their capability of producing Apple parts.
Apple would have very carefully constructed their supply contracts with manufacturers like Samsung. Ie. if Samsung fails to deliver the components they need, they would be liable for a huge amount of compensation. You can't just decide to exit a contract like that without consequences.
$92m holy ****! That is an insane amount of money to gamble, for such petty patents that really aren't terribly innovative and shouldn't even be private. "slide to unlock" for instance... There's a line, Apple. You don't always play by the rules, either.
It's not competition to infringe on patents. It's the reverse. If the second and third into the market feel free to steal what the initiator did, then there's no reason to innovate.
Using something to slide an icon to do something else is an intro to CS thing. I did that in Visual Basic in high school. Granted it was with a mouse, same thing though, an input device is an input device, mouse or finger. That's why these patents need to be thrown out.
LTE is also part of the 3GPP standard. Meaning most, if not all, of them are probably FRAND.
But there's a difference. If a patent is held in what gets adopted as a standard, like LTE or 3G, they get some royalties from each user of the patent, but they have to allow all comers to license it.
All four of those things have prior examples to apple filing them. This is absolutely ridiculous, I serious am about to start smashing the piece of crap broken g5 I have sitting in my room that stopped working.
Most companies are smart they have contracts that require huge penalties should someone try to break it.
Plus Samsung's many groups operate more or less independent of one another. The semiconductor groups job is to bring as much money as possible. They don't care if it happens to be competitor to the mobile group.
nice try, LTE patents are standard essential patents, if samsung goes after apple with those, then they are simply digging their own grave.
Apple was just cleared of one of the Samsung alleged infringements. Not looking good for Samsung at this point. I think this now gets the attention of all the Android manufacturers and Google. Android is turning into a big bag of hurt for everyone.
http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/06/federal-judge-clears-apple-of.html
http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/06/federal-judge-clears-apple-of.html
You do know that Eric Schmidt was elected to Apple's board of directors back in August 28, 2006?
On August 3, 2009, it was announced that Schmidt would resign from the board of directors at Apple due to conflicts of interest amid the growing competition between Google and Apple.
He also worked on Android during the time he was part of Apple's Board of Directors. For him to be sitting in the Board of Directors for Apple and to be making an OS that resembled iOS a fair bit sounds very suspicious.
Whether or not he stole Apple's ideas during that time to make Android... You decide.
Those WM phones don't have a market share that is significant any more, nor is it really a threat to Apple's market shares. So, those phone maybe infringing on something, but their really not on Apple's radar because of their position in the market.
Well, here's one denizen of this Apple forum who doesn't mind this. I remember the '80s, and what happened to the Mac. Jobs vowed it wouldn't happen again.
Notice, no suits against Windows Phone 7. It's ***different,*** and it doesn't infringe. Android, however, and all the little baby Androids, do. To judges. Real live judges who have the power and know the law.
You can go back for a long way in American law, and most often the original developers get screwed. Major Armstrong invented FM radio, and in fact, patented a system that was much better than the one that NBC's David Sarnoff got his engineers to develop. Guess which system he deployed. Armstrong filed suit, but he was small and the head of NBC was big. Armstrong eventually was near winning, but NBC's lawyers had delayed him so long that his chance was gone. He committed suicide.
The only difference with Apple is that this time, they have the lawyers and the money to spend.