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Apple Wins EU Ban of Smaller Samsung Tablet, Demands $2.5 Billion In Damages
walterbyrd writes with news that Apple has won a preliminary injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 across the European Union, thanks to a decision in a German regional court today. At the same time, the court re-affirmed the denial of an injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1N, a version of Samsung's 10.1" tablet that was modified to avoid infringing upon the same patents Apple had asserted earlier. The two companies are still fighting on the other side of the Atlantic as well. In a filing today in a San Diego, California court, Apple is claiming $2.5 billion in damages. "Samsung's infringing sales have enabled Samsung to overtake Apple as the largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world. Samsung has reaped billions of dollars in profits and caused Apple to lose hundreds of millions of dollars through its violation of Apple's intellectual property." Samsung, of course, thinks it should owe much less — $0.0049 per unit per patent — if anything.
Is it evil to defend your intellectual property?
I suspect enforcing GPL is also evil?
What about the Compaq TC1000 which was released ~7 years before the first iPad. HP Compaq Tablet PC TC1000 - TM5800 1 GHz - 10.4" TFT.
Stop trying to come up with lame excuses. Apple hasn't come up with anything new since the early 1980's. They just take what someone else built and remake it. They know that all they have to fall back on is patient lawsuits because there WILL be better devices released by other companies within a year that Apple first releases their model. What it boils down to is Apple us using patient lawsuits to prevent it from getting crushed like in the 1980's