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In UK, Apple Must Run Ad Apologizing to Samsung
sfcrazy writes "Apple has lost is appeal in a UK court against Samsung's Galaxy Tab. The court of appeals has upheld its previous judgment that Samsung did not infringe on any Apple design. According to the order Apple will have to run an ads in leading UK newspapers as well its own website stating that Samsung did not infringes its products. To ensure that the ad is visible the court also ordered that the text of the ad must not be in a font size smaller than Ariel 14. Apple will have to run the ad on its site for a period of one month."
the court forgot to specify that Apple could not use the same text & background colours!
Apple did win a concession: they were originally ordered to have it on the web site for 6 months, this was reduced to 1 month.
It's a typo in the linked story. Item 64 of the ruling specifies Arial 11pt and Arial 14pt for particular things: http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2012/1339.html
Yes. Not only the customers, even the judges (I'm thinking about you, Lucy Koh) are not complete idiots in the UK.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
Having a trial doesn't mean that at all, losing it, on the other hand, does*.
* - Unless you win your appeal. Which Apple didn't.
Actually, that typo is copied directly from TFA... So Mucktware doesn't proofread.....
Free Pie! The Pie is Also Evil!
Wait, why are the magnetic connectors bad? Everyone should have those. They solve a problem--accidentally snagging a cable and dragging stuff onto the ground--that's a REAL problem, with a really great design. (It's not Apple's idea, BTW. Hot grease cookers and hot water dispensers have had this for ages for similar reasons.)
I see someone pull their headphones onto the ground at my office literally 5 or 6 times a day. It's a dumb problem, but it's so common. It's the same reason why the XBox has a break-away cable.
14pt is a fixed size, independent of resolution. 1pt is 1/72 inch (12 points per pica, 6 picas per inch).
They can only do that by using the redefined meaning of the word "copy".
If Apple does something, it, by definition, is original. They cannot be copying. If you accuse them of it, you obviously do not know what the word means.
If you are a competitor, you are copying their stuff. If you say you are not because you were using the idea 10 years before Apple did, you still do not correctly understand the word.
Copying means doing anything that may affect their profits - nothing else. You could make a spherical phone with 32 hexagonal buttons, a crescent shaped screen, had a UI based on Lcars and Apple would still sue for copying you if it was faster, cheaper and easier to use and outsold them.
The more traditional meaning of "copying" is being phased out by apple now then?
I'll see your Constitution and raise you a Queen.
Samsung wouldn't have gone very far unless the Middle Eastern oil companies provided them with petrochemicals for the Galaxy's plastic cover. However, there is nothing made by Samsung in any product supplied by the said companies. Now...who is the innovator?
Bet you a shiny dollar there is.
Samsung Heavy Industries.
Science is all about firing a drunk pig out of a cannon just to see what happens.