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Samsung Retaliates Against Ericsson With Patent Complaint
An anonymous reader writes "The wireless patent wars don't pause at Christmas time, keeping numerous IP lawyers (and a certain litigation watcher) busy even at this time of year. No one seriously expected Samsung to turn the other cheek when Ericsson sued it and requested a U.S. import ban against a host of Galaxy devices. The Korean electronics giant, which is increasingly competing with Ericsson in the telecoms infrastructure market, just filed an ITC complaint of its own. The title of the complaint is Certain Wireless Communication Equipment and Articles Therein. That description would apply to dozens, no: hundreds, of patent lawsuits in the world. The complaint has not been published yet, but it would be out of character for Samsung not to assert some of its patents on wireless industry standards (and maybe some others, too)." (Also at the BBC.)
That covers just about anything.
Even "Certain Wireless Communication Equipment and Articles Therein".
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Yeah, total coincidence Samsung ignored this blatent infringement for years and only filed a lawsuit after Erricsson did first. On second thought, maybe your dictionary is broken.
retaliate (v) make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil; (and this is slashdot, where patents are evil).
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
There seem to be more stories about tech companies suing each other than anything else on /. anymore.
That's because, in the US, that's about the only new technical development that's happening. Anything actually productive has fled to parts of the world where such things are still legal. ;-)
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
Samsung Techwin makes the K9 Thunder self-propelled howitzer.
Yay. No Samsung in the US, no Apple in Europe. A scorched Earth patent war would finally wake people up to the fact that no complex item can be made without violating thousands of patents. It's just that most industries there are few enough players that a patent war would result in more self damage. If Ford sued Toyota, Japan and others would insta-block Ford. If Boeing and Airbus had issues, France/EU and the US would block the "enemy". Airbus wants access to the US carriers, and Boeing wants access to the EU carriers, and everyone knows you can't build a complex object without violating patents, so they don't look, unless blatant, and hope for an out of court settlement.
It wasn't until the fractured phone market thought it could win the unwinnable war where this mess got enough traction to make a public stink.
We can only hope everyone sees it through and the result is world-wide bans of all mobile phones. Once the execs want their SIII, Note2, iPhone, or Blackberry and can't get it, then the people with power will start to look into the problem (that 20% of Slashdot could fix better than the current system, and 95% *think* they can solve better than the current system).
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