They can't as Apple didn't make a single blue box. Apple was formed after Jobs and Woz stopped making blue boxes.
AT&T could sue Woz over blue boxes, but I doubt they are going to.
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Jury Finds Largely in Favor of Apple in Apple vs. Samsung Trial, Awards More than $1 Billion in Damages
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They can't as Apple didn't make a single blue box. Apple was formed after Jobs and Woz stopped making blue boxes.
AT&T could sue Woz over blue boxes, but I doubt they are going to.
but isnt only the US affected by this ruling? and not even their latest gadgets like the SIII + i always thought the biggest market for Samsung is in Asia and Europe anyway
OR they could just license it from apple which they probably won't allow
Gotcha, so this is about user experience. And since Apple has such a major following this trial was decided before it even began then.
Will they? when they them self will have a spike in sales from it? When apple cannot get a single screen to there phones then Samsung will be bigger and bigger so goes for LG because the have screens.
And if Apple score this victory in the end, that I don't believe they will tho. They will come a threat to Samsung Int. not just Samsung Mobile. Samsung Mobile is the biggest cash cow for Samsung as it's right now. So that practice can be changed fast if this verdict will stand in higher court. Also if the go after LG and there phone market they will protect them self as well since its a very big part of there businesses as well.
Being the biggest gorilla in the room doesn't automatically make you guilty of anti-trust. What you do in that position, and how you relate to your customers and suppliers, and whether you use your influential position to strong arm others into capitulating now that's different. Apple can completely own the smartphone market with its patents and be a good corporate citizen at the same time.
Way to judge people. Didn't know what WRX did was against the terms of agreement.
Again, the case is not over. Apple will eventually touch the wrong person. But unless I'M getting the billions, I DON'T CARE!
Apple might want Samsung out of the smartphone market, but they're smart enough to know that's not possible. This is just negotiation, don't get hung up in the win/loss legal side of it. This isn't how courts are used 99% of the time, it's just strategy and competition these days.
I would venture that Apple and Samsung are MORE likely to even CLOSER aligned than they were previously due to this. They will have to settle and it isn't as if one of them is going out of business.
Samsung obviously didn't "demonstrate" it - the jury didn't believe them. haha.
Does your local police arrest everyone who breaks the law? Does your highway patrol pull over every single driver who exceeds the speed limit? Of course not. This verdict is designed to SCARE the balls out of any company that would consider using Android. That is the whole point of this lawsuit.
No one knows yet. They are still arguing over details of the verdict. Only after it is settled will the judge consider things such as staying the verdict or issuing injunctions. The jury trial is about damages (a question of law). Injunctions are an equitable remedy, and are decided separately.
There you go! And guess what, they'll both continue to sue one another and work together at the same time.
It's a weird and seemingly very inefficient way to do business...but this is how it's done these days.
Anyways, Samsung is far from dead. They seem to have move beyond copying apple (at least, I find their S3 phone looks nothing like the iPhone) and going forward, I think this will be how they differentiate themselves - through phones with larger screens and possibly styluses.
Yes, I do believe the patent system allows market leaders such as Apple to stretch out their product lines. It's how they can milk people into buying each new phone with minimum new features - and why Apples product cycle is yearly.
Several other, much smarter people then I will ever be, think the same. Patents slow the rate of innovation.
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It means exactly what it means. They don't like to license any of their patents. They don't like to share ideas. They are a secretive company. The sad part is that they can do this because their patents are predominately not innovative. The truly innovative tech patents become part of FRAND and are forced to be licensed out.
I don't see how this verdict can be anything but a good things for consumers no matter what OS you use.
Steve Jobs stepped down from Apple one year ago today. Poetic.
Steve Jobs stepped down from Apple one year ago today. Poetic.
Well they did, but the jury did not understand it, they are not people that are experts in patent laws or any laws for that matter they are a jury of peers ordinary people. And most ordinary people would not understand a bit of what that trial was about.
It was held a couple of miles away from Apple headquarter to start with, and it's an american company vs an asian company. If you don't understand the issue you go with national pride.
Sad.....after owning every iPhone and iPad Apple made
Now this makes me want to buy a Galaxy S3
Now this makes me want to buy a Galaxy S3
You mean black rectangles? I seriously want to meet the people that can't tell the difference between an iPhone and a Samsung phone, as I am having a hard time believing they exist.
As for the ruling, I didn't expect anything different from a country that allowed the patents in the first place.
NO, Im saying that apple spent a LOT of time figuring out "the little things" that made the iphone work. Samsung spent twenty minutes ripping one apart to figure out how it worked.
The original document where they showed all the comments by SS engineers comparing it to the iphone and what to change. If they had presented an additional document showing how they compared it to a NOKIA or Microsoft, or LG phone, it would have given them more credibility.
Why don't I see Nokia and MSFT having problems?
Android has the problem. I would call that a clue.
This is exactly why respected IP jurists such as Posner believe that off the street juries should not decide patent validity and infringement.
Heck, experienced patent reviewers, such as the ITC has, take weeks to figure out a single patent's infringement, much less its validity.
This California jury decided validity, infringement and payments for multiple patents in less than three days.
I wonder what would've happened if they didn't get to just check off boxes, but instead had to actually explain their findings in detail, just as real patent reviewers must.