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Samsung Sues Aussie Patent Office In Apple Suit, Apple Sues Back
schliz writes "Samsung has sued the Australian patent commissioner — and by extension the Australian Government — in an attempt to force a review of patents key to its global battle with smartphone rival Apple. The Korean manufacturer claims that the commissioner should not have been able to grant four patents used by Apple in its case against Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1. The Government solicitor will face Samsung in court on June 25." Not to be outdone, niftydude points out that Apple has filed a motion in a California court to prevent Samsung selling its latest smartphone, the Galaxy S III in the US.
Apple claimed that the new phone, which is yet to go on sale in the US but went on sale in Australia last week, could cause it "irreparable harm," citing press reports that mobile companies had already sold more than nine million units in pre-orders.
Hardly surprising that Apple is worried, according to the Telegraph the Samsung Galaxy S3 has now overtaken the iPhone 4S as the UK's most popular phone.
No, capitalism is leveraging your capital to increase it, the principle method is assumed to be a mixed or free market, but everything that increases capital is fair game.
Apple is the aggressor here. They started the war, they are the ones trying to get Samsung products banned from sale. Samsung mostly tries to defend itself by getting patents invalidated, with occasional and IMHO misguided attempts at having Apple products banned in retaliation.
There need to be severe consequences for failed patent litigation.
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I've been a pragmatically happy iPod owner, but one of the reasons I bought an Android phone was Apples behavior wrt patent lawsuits. If they want to continue to shoot their own foot, so be it.
Flourescent (adj): smelling like ground wheat.
Yes, because we didn't have rectangular stuff with round corners before Apple. But talking about copying stuff, when did iOS get notification bar? Or multitask? Dictating and voice commands? Shall I continue on? Get over it, Apple copies as much as the next. The question is what is and it's not patentable (and I won't even go to the argument if Apple has the right to announce existing tech as new tech when launching "new" stuff or not).
Compare the iPhone 1.0 to the LG Prada phone. Apple was not the first capacitive touch phone. It came up with a similar design to the LG Prada. It's convergent evolution - once they realized that capacitive screens are better (because no-one wants to mess around with a stylus) then a few common solutions (big screen, no buttons, big icons, smooth dragging) cropped up. Apple just did it a bit better.
Troll harder. Apple licensed the GUI from Xerox. Android looked nothing like iOS until iOS came about, but Google & Schmidt had inside knowledge of what Apple was doing at that point. It wasn't until the G1 was announced that the relationship fell apart.
It's like you fan boys and corporate cheerleaders don't even try any more.
-- a happy Nokia owner who could really care less about these lawsuits!
Copy? Android is being developed since 2003
And prior to the launch of the iPhone, it resembled the Blackberry UI. Plagiarists are fickle.
the T-Mobile G1 was released 2008 only a couple of months after the iPhone 3G (which was the first "smartphone" iPhone, the iPhone of 2007 not offering apps)
The industrial hardware design, and the UI design don't rely on the supporting of apps. They were both there in the original iPhone. The phone you mention was launched 1 year and 9 months after Steve Jobs publicly demonstrated the iPhone.
Though why you chose a HTC phone when the topic is Samsung's plagiarism isn't clear.
And then, the Xerox meme? Really? Are you that stupid? If you don't know by now that Apple paid for the Xerox stuff with Apple stock, after 30 years of being told, you must be trolling.
They would have patented the use of four wheels.
The point is that in other industries, we do not see the petty suits over similarities. Perhaps we don't see them because we aren't looking. But the only issue I recall even remotely similar to this in terms of pettiness is the patent on "rotating table inside of microwave oven." For the longest time, people had to buy little devices or turn their food by hand because the ones with rotating tables inside were too expensive and the patent holder's license was too high.
I suppose we are seeing SOME patent issues in cars now that I think about it. Toyota holds patents related to the Prius pretty close and it's literally keeping hybrids from being developed. Yes, there are other hybrids out there. Just not many and not as successful. It's not that people don't want them, it's that they don't all want the same frikken car!
Lawyers don't want this to end. The judges aren't tired of this either... perhaps some are, but certainly not the ones in East Texas. The other parts of government are too busy collecting contributions and donations, walking through revolving doors and anything except "bribery" to even consider reform or intervention.
We'll just have to be content watching goliaths tear each other apart and all that.
Apple fans love that version of events but it just isn't so. The Blackberry-esque device was only one prototype. There were fully touch enabled prototypes being tested in the same time frame:
http://www.osnews.com/story/25264/Did_Android_Really_Look_Like_BlackBerry_Before_the_iPhone_
That's the point, it didn't add anything to the discussion. It's also that kind of simplification that everybody has to wade through to educate people about the actual legal claims. Stop repeating shit.
Here and don't say rectangles again: http://peanutbuttereggdirt.com/e/2011/05/03/apple-vs-samsung-a-visual-guide-to-apples-ip-claims-hardware-icons-packaging/
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To be fair to Apple, Samsung called a lot of this shit onto itself by so blatantly lifting design elements from the iPad.
Oh really?
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