Samsung Galaxy Banned in Some European Countries

[Dos_Box]

Samsung have been found to have infringed some Apple patants in a Dutch court and a ban on the device's sale there starts in 7 weeks acccording to this BBC article: BBC News - Euro ban for Samsung Galaxy phone
As Samsung imports it's devices into Holland as the companys gateway into europe I wonder if they can simply switch countries? Mind you, this comment may put a dampener on this:

The interim injunction prohibits sale of devices by three of the company's Dutch subsidiaries to the UK, France, Germany, Finland, Ireland, Lichtenstein, Luxemburg, Monaco, Sweden and Switzerland.

I wonder how long it will be before Apple get to feel some bad patant karma seeing as there looks to be a huge mobile device patant ruck about to go down in the very near future, and this may be just the beginning.

[glennda]

I think this will all end up with the big players apple, motorola (soon to be google) samsung htc etc all going into some big agreement licensing each other to use each others patents. but there will be many months/years of suing each other before that happens

[GrumbleDook]

I wonder what works out cheaper ... the legal teams dealing with suing other companies for patent infringements or the legal teams who work on the licensing arrangements?

[ZeroHour]

I think this will all end up with the big players apple, motorola (soon to be google) samsung htc etc all going into some big agreement licensing each other to use each others patents. but there will be many months/years of suing each other before that happens

Do apple actually license any? normally all you hear about with them is to stop others or prevent being sued themselves. Look at the plug they patented, never licensed.

[glennda]

Do apple actually license any? normally all you hear about with them is to stop others or prevent being sued themselves. Look at the plug they patented, never licensed.

no but when the others turn on them - for example the main reason google purchased motorola (way over priced) was to access the library of patents they have. so at somepoint one would assume that google will turn around and try and sue apple which will get to the point where they are all suing each other for patent infringment which will mean that they turn around and start either licensing each other for the ideas or draw into an agreement whereas apple can use idea a that google (motorola) have patented and vice versa

[mattx]

Apple are pathetic - they would try and patent a beige box given half a chance.

[pete]

As someone who switched to a Galaxy S2 recently (from an iPhone 3G), I was surprised by just how much Samsung have tried to make the phone and accompanying packaging look like an iPhone.

*ponders retraining as a Sysadmin-Solicitor combo specialising in patents*

I mean, that patio doesn't get paved with gold all by itself...

[Theblacksheep]

As someone who switched to a Galaxy S2 recently (from an iPhone 3G), I was surprised by just how much Samsung have tried to make the phone and accompanying packaging look like an iPhone.

It looks like it, in the way its sorta square, black and simple.... but it just looks like a large version of the F700 which came out in Feb 2007 (and shown to the public in 2006).

Apple are so pathetic.

[GrumbleDook]

Apple do licence patents from others, as other licence patents from Apple.
Nokia and Apple settle patent row | Technology | guardian.co.uk

[ZeroHour]

Apple do licence patents from others, as other licence patents from Apple.
Nokia and Apple settle patent row | Technology | guardian.co.uk

In that example Apple paid nokia because they were infringing. It doesnt mention the other way around, no doubt the payoff included immunity for Apples patent arguments.

[pete]

It looks like it, in the way its sorta square, black and simple.... but it just looks like a large version of the F700 which came out in Feb 2007 (and shown to the public in 2006).

Apple are so pathetic.

Perhaps I wasn't clear. Aside from the Samsung branding, the Galaxy S2 packaging was identical to the packaging for my iPhone 3G. Same dimensions, material, black plastic phone cradle, sticky wrapping around the phone.

Regarding the phone itself? Dunno, haven't played with an iPhone 4, but Samsung are consciously playing up the "like an Apple product" angle in terms of presentation.

That doesn't excuse Jobs and Co for being a shower of compulsively litigious tards however.

[AyatollahPies]

I await the ghost of Stanley Kubrick to sue Apple for blatantly copying the spacepad as seen in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, and re-branding it as an ipad.

[Dos_Box]

I await the ghost of Stanley Kubrick to sue Apple for blatantly copying the spacepad as seen in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, and re-branding it as an ipad.

Or Arthur C Clarke who wrote the book and was technical advisor to the film. Interestingly as Clarke had described the use and funcionality of satellites so well back in the 40's no one was allowed to patent them. I wonder if he did the same for the spacepad? Now that would prove interesting!

[Theblacksheep]

Perhaps I wasn't clear. Aside from the Samsung branding, the Galaxy S2 packaging was identical to the packaging for my iPhone 3G. Same dimensions, material, black plastic phone cradle, sticky wrapping around the phone.

Regarding the phone itself? Dunno, haven't played with an iPhone 4, but Samsung are consciously playing up the "like an Apple product" angle in terms of presentation.

That doesn't excuse Jobs and Co for being a shower of compulsively litigious tards however.

Mine was on orange, so just a small black box about the size of the phone with a little extra height. Nothing on the box at all.

Heres the F700. Chicken or the egg?

samsung_f700_cellular.jpg

[SYNACK]

I wonder what patents they are going after them with now, 'use of the letter a', 'a device with a screen'. The corts just need to ban Apple imports for six months for wasting everyones time which may teach them some manners.