Apple files new lawsuit, seeks new ban against Samsung in Germany
Summary: 'Those two' are at it again. Apple strikes Samsung with another lawsuit, while Samsung keeps batting them away with its industrial-sized legal baseball bat.
Another day, another lawsuit. If you thought these suits were going to slow down and peter out, you're not in for much luck.
The two smartphone giants are once again at loggerheads after Apple filed a lawsuit against Samsung in Germany last week. Apple is seeking the ban on a number of Samsung's smartphones in Germany.
The suit claims that ten Samsung smartphones violate Apple's design patents. A separate suit claims that five of Samsung's tablets also violate patents, including the Galaxy S II.
But only last month, the Dusseldorf court said it is unlikely to grant Apple an injunction against Samsung's revised Galaxy Tab 10.1N, which was changed to stand out from the iPad for which Apple claimed it had remarkable design similarities.
Apple had previously attempted to seek a ban on Samsung's tablet product range. Last month, Apple believed that Samsung violated at least ten of its patents. Samsung struck back at Apple by alleging four of its own patents were infringed, including one involving a smiley face emoticon.
Both Samsung and Apple have been at each other's necks since April last year, when Apple brought its first patent infringement case against the Korean smartphone and tablet giant. Despite a series of injunctions and sales bans, Samsung still expects record profits.
The tit-for-tat legal bickering is not expected to die down any time soon. The patent war between the two companies has spread to over 30 cases in 10 jurisdictions, including Australia, Europe, and the U.S.
While Samsung remains on the most part the defendant in most cases, the company is hardly complaining. Apple's attempt to block the sale of its products invariably made the Galaxy Tab a "household name".
A Samsung spokesperson acknowledged the lawsuits, but declined to comment.
Image source: CNET.
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RE: Apple files new lawsuit, seeks new ban against Samsung in Germany
RE: Apple files new lawsuit, seeks new ban against Samsung in Germany
That's Good. If I were in Samsung's marketing dept, I'd steal it.
"steal it"... Now that's FUNNY:)
Pagan jim
RE: Apple files new lawsuit, seeks new ban against Samsung in Germany
at least someone caught it. I hate to waste a joke.
Though honestly, with Apple's near unofficial monopoly on the tablet space, who's seriously going to buy a Samsung when they intended to buy an iPad?
RE: Apple files new lawsuit, seeks new ban against Samsung in Germany
Samsung did use that marketing angle in Australia after a ban was lifted.
RE: Apple files new lawsuit, seeks new ban against Samsung in Germany
RE: Apple files new lawsuit, seeks new ban against Samsung in Germany
The community has has reached it's tolerance limit and apple must drop this lawsuit of face serious consequences!
Yawn....zzzzzzz.
Pagan jim
If by serious consequences you mean another lame troll post from you
RE: Apple files new lawsuit, seeks new ban against Samsung in Germany
Apple better start putting more emphasis on technology rather than the legal battles or its days are numbered just like Sun Micro-systems. Sun decided to fight MS legally instead of by technology and it destroyed the company.
Lets see, IN the past few years we have iPod, iPhone and iPad.
Pagan jim
Yes, the iPod, iPhone, iPad
Three iterations of basically the same product, the same concept.
Would that be any different then Microsoft generating their revenue from Windows on the PC, Windows on the Server, and Windows on the phone?
Three instences of basically the same product.
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HAHAHAHA... oh wait where is SUN now? Where is Scott McNeally?
Crossing the line
I mean really, an emoticon. And a smiley face at that. This is when you know things have gone too far, by clearly exceeding any vestiges of fair game.
How dare Apple.
RE: Apple files new lawsuit, seeks new ban against Samsung in Germany
ScorpioBlue come out and play...
And what are we supposed to say?
Classic when you can't compete on merit, litigate!
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RE: Apple files new lawsuit, seeks new ban against Samsung in Germany
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Samsung generally doesn't war over patents
I think Samsung are more pragmatic when it comes to patents, many of which would have come out of the course of their R&D, just like IBM, HP, MS and many of the old school tech companies - practical solutions to practical problems. They are just generated as part of the process, but unless another company is causing real damage to Samsung's sales by using them, it is really a compliment. Perhaps that is how we should be treating patents.
The patent cross-licensing deal with MS probably recognises that they both have plenty of things they could fight over, but lets just write it off as expenses and get on with business, which is worth far more lucrative.
Apple has only a couple of handfuls of very successful consumer products, which has given it a good bank account, but which exposes it to significant risk if consumer whims take the market in another direction. While their product sales are still expanding, they are not at the rates others, like Samsung, are. This leaves them two choices: innovate or cut off their competitors' feet. But they have been cutting back on their R&D in recent years.
Samsung, with its diverified portfolio of successful consumer products, has many more feet than Apple, and so can afford to fight back, even against Apple's treasure chest, because it has one of it's own and an R&D budget to match, which makes it more likely to have more successful products in future.
Apple may have just bitten off more than it can handle by picking on Samsung. It is a very big gamble.