Apple Wins EU Ban of Smaller Samsung Tablet, Demands $2.5 Billion In Damages 377
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.
Re:Why foss patents? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Apple is the new Microsoft (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Apple is the new Microsoft (Score:4, Informative)
with all due respect, a simple design is tough to come up with, but easy to steal. Gene Roddenberry has every right to defend the product line he surely agonized to invent and promote. now Apple and others are reaping what someone else sown
Fixed that for you. For fuck's sake, the "flat, rounded rectangle" thing predates Apple Computer by like, a decade at least.
(Yeah, Gene probably wasn't the first either, but I think the point is clear.)
Re:Apple is the new Microsoft (Score:4, Informative)
Try installing Windows 8 on a 2005 Thinkpad. Let me know how well it works for you.
I have a 2005 Thinkpad running Win7 just fine. I haven't tried Win8 yet, but given that it has lower hardware requirements, I don't see a problem there.
Re:Hey Apple (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Hey Apple (Score:2, Informative)
You can see a bunch of postage-stamp sized thumbnails of them.
Check out these not-iPads: http://tablets-planet.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Best-Buy-Tablet-Central-in-store-display.jpg [tablets-planet.com]
Oh, hey, here's more: https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=best+buy+tablet+section&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&authuser=0&ei=BvUOUOK6IaKMiAKsuYGQBA&biw=1334&bih=848&sei=CPUOULanJ4WXiAKMwIHgCQ [google.com]
Follow instructions next time.
Re:Hey Apple (Score:5, Informative)
Seriously. Who would have ever thought to make a rectangualr tablet with rounded corners? [memory-alpha.org] It's not at all obvious, and there's certainly no prior art.
Re:Why foss patents? (Score:5, Informative)
Because Florian is one of the best and most prolific law bloggers on the web today.
Florian is not a lawyer, not a patent expert, and not a good law blogger. He is a paid shill and prolific blogger. I avoid his site these days but I've read a lot of his stuff over the past few years and it is generally trash. During the Google v. Oracle case, he routinely misrepresented what was said by the judge, the attorneys, and the witnesses. His analysis was obviously shoddy to anyone not relying on FOSSpatents for 100% of their reporting. His predictions did not pan out. He is a shill paid by Microsoft and Oracle. He is an enemy of FOSS and a proponent of software patent abuse, exactly counter to what he claims. His background is in software marketing, not legal, and it shows.
Anyone quoting him or linking to his blog is demonstrating their ignorance of who he is and what he represents.