Dutch Court Says Android 2.3 Violates Apple Patents

jfruhlinger writes "A Dutch court came to some interesting conclusions in the Apple-Samsung patent case raging there. The court rejected claims that Samsung stole intellectual copyrights, or that it slavishly copied Apple's iPad and iPhone. It did decide that Android 2.3 violated an Apple photo management patent — but said that Samsung could get around this simply by upgrading its phones to Android 3.0."

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[itsdapead]

Typical.

Samsung gets away with copying the distinctive look of the iPhone* to an extent that most other smartphone vendors have managed to avoid.

Then they get done for infringing a stupid software patent about scrolling photos, which shouldn't even exist in Europe but has been sneaked in dressed up as a hardware patent, which could be a royal pain for anybody trying to make a smartphone.

* Forget Apple's allegedly doctored/cherry-picked images - just have a look at a random phone vendor's page and see which ones look just like the iPhone... and blow me down, why are O2 using Apple's "fake" image of the Galaxy S: you know, the one that displaying the grid of icons instead of the Android home screen? Apart, perhaps, from the HTC HD7, all the other phones manage to incorporate the essential features of a touchscreen smartphone without looking just like an iPhone.