Nine Samsung devices that Apple wants to ban
Summary: A jury decided that more than 25 Samsung phones and tablets contained contained technology that violated Apple patents. Now Apple wants to make sure than 9 of them won't get sold in the US.
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Apple won a $1.05 billion jury verdict over Samsung in a fight about which company's patent claims for tablets and smartphones were valid. The jury's ruling said that several Samsung smartphones/tablets were in violation of Apple patents.
Now, Apple wants even more revenge by obtaining a permanent ban on Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets, which already has a temporary restraining order against its sales, and 8 other smartphones to be banned for sales in the US. A hearing on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 will be held on Sept. 20 while a hearing on the other devices has been pushed back to December. Here are the 8 other devices in question.
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The interesting thing about all those screenshots of smartphones? None of them have a grid of icons and all of them have 4 hardware buttons at the bottom.
because,
I bet, most of zdnet authors would start speculating what the copy-cat farmers should do to change in the design of the grown fruits to comply with such decision.
The farmers will be "OK"...
the jury and
The Apple CEO T. Crook would point at to the pile of the bitten off pieces, calling it a "mountain of evidence".
Poor todd's buttocks
You gotta stay away from the fast food, shill.
lol...
"Because it's not just a slap on the wrist"
So Toddy
Here's the thing that completely invalidates your post: HTC phones are sold all day long. So are LG, Sony, Nokia, Motorola... so yes indeed there are still choices. Apple did not take away those choices.
This is just the beginning
Re: This is just the beginning
Come to think of it, if this keeps up, it might end up being another Apple vs Microsoft horse race in the phone and tablet markets after all!
Huh. Who'd have thought?
Apple is trying to ban 29 HTC models
Do you have anything to back that up?
athynz, this is at least the 2nd time I've given you links
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/apple-reaffirms-case-to-ban-29-htc-devices-in-us-1087000
Let's hope it's 9 billion dollars
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as far as i understand it
Unlike Apple, most cellphone manufacturers have to refresh models every 6 months or so to keep market share.
iphone blatant copy of lg prada
They didn't
None of Apple's patents should have been upheld. Prior art existed for all. But the foreman dismissed the prior art because he was a patent holder.
This whole case is going to be overturned.
are you that niave?
Mark my word, write it in stone, plaster it on the walls of the white house: Apple is going to go after all those cell companies.
It's not ok to copy...
1) you own the rectangular design
2) you own the feature of rounded edges
3) you own the icon of using a picture of
* a handset to symbolize "call"
* an envelope to symbolize "mail"
* a clock to symbolize "clock"
* a calendar (rectangle divided into squares) to symbolize "calendar"
These were the features Apple were complaining about.
Look. Every modern device has rounded edges because sharp edges may hurt. Rounded edges are also common in most other designs, not just tech devices.
And do you really want all other companies to use squares, triangles, and other shapes just because Apple thinks using a rectangle with rounded edges is their design "innovation"???
And those icons... if you were designing a phone, wouldn't it be at least *natural* to use a picture of a handset to mean phone, an envelope for mail, and a clock to mean, er, a clock?
Then Samsung wanted to present evidence that there are prior products with rounded edges even by other companies like Sony. But Judge Koh ruled that Samsung cannot present these evidence because it is unrelated; the only issue, he says, is whether Samsung phone's shape is indeed similar to Apple's. That is how stupid US patent law is.
Oh, and btw, Apple also claimed in the trial that using green for call and red for missed call is their "design innovation" which was copied by Samsung. That is bullshit. Those are the most natural colors to use.
If the judges continue to validate these features as Apple's "design innovation", it will force other companies to avoid these good design elements helpful to users rather than compete on better things like features, specs, and size.
" . . . okay for a company to blatantly use another company's IP . . . "
Speaking of the patent process, why wasn't Apple fined or sanctioned for submitting items for patent without including the information on prior use of the same concepts? That is a requirement they simple ignored and were granted patents with no ramifications. As I said, the process is broken.
Re: So Toddy