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| Samsung starts its defence against Apple |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-08-14 21:16:39 |
| This week, Samsung started its defence in the big Apple vs. Samsung thing. First, Samsung pointed towards several cases of prior art, trying to invalidate Apple patents, surely something that's going to be the theme to Samsung's case. Later, Samsung pulled its own software patents out of its a... Neck, claiming Apple infringed them. The patents are just as ridiculous as Apple's, but alas, they have to do something in the face of Apple's anti-competitive aggression. Here is Shepard under a unicorn rainbow. |
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| Yup |
| By judgen on 2012-08-14 22:13:19 |
| Hopefully something good will come out of this litigation and its following verdict, but i am starting to doubt it. |
 - Score: 6 |
| RE: Yup |
| By Alfman on 2012-08-14 22:56:54 |
| The best case scenario is that both companies are allowed to continue selling their devices while passing along minimal royalty fees to consumers, and all that will have been lost is millions in $ of legal overhead. |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE: Yup |
| By quackalist on 2012-08-14 23:45:32 |
| Win, and you'd have to wonder how, or lose imagine in years to come this will be thought the defining moment when Apple lost the plot and threw it all away...well, maybe not all but than MS hasn't thrown it all away as yet. |
| - Score: 1 |
| RE[2]: Yup |
| By shmerl on 2012-08-15 00:32:42 |
| The best scenario IMO - passing no fees to consumers and complete invalidation of offensive patents. All other scenarios can hardly be called "best". |
| - Score: 3 |
| Defence! |
| By kwan_e on 2012-08-15 02:09:50 |
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Defence! Defence! You call that blowing!? |
| - Score: 3 |
| The winners are |
| By tingo on 2012-08-15 08:22:40 |
| as always, the Lawyers. Another court case, another win for the lawyers on both sides. |
| - Score: 1 |
| Comment by marcp |
| By marcp on 2012-08-15 12:08:15 |
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You know what? I'm fed up with this. Let them fight. I'll choose and recommend to others to buy alternative, open hardware and low cost phones with custom linux OS. Screw you Apple, screw you Samsung. You're all about the money, patents and not the end users. Just go @#$%@#$ alternative whenever you can. Don't let the bastards screw with you. |
| - Score: 0 |
| No good will come from it |
| By Drunkula on 2012-08-15 12:53:07 |
| Judge Koh is apparently biased by disallowing a big part of Samsung's defense (pre-Iphone designs). |
| - Score: 1 |
| RE: No good will come from it |
| By Bobthearch on 2012-08-15 13:39:09 |
| It seems that Samsung screwed up by not submitting that evidence on time. |
| - Score: 3 |
| RE[3]: Yup |
| By Alfman on 2012-08-15 13:48:34 |
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shmerl, "The best scenario IMO - passing no fees to consumers and complete invalidation of offensive patents. All other scenarios can hardly be called 'best'." I agree that would be the best scenario for consumers overall, but I was kind of thinking of the best realistic scenario that could result from this case. I also hope there are no new royalty fees, but I'm sure both companies are already paying royalties which won't be affected by this case. Just to connect the dots in your scenario, to invalidate offensive patents is more or less equivalent to rendering them void, isn't it? After all, if nobody can use them offensively, then there would be zero need to defend from them either. The "value" of patents becomes nil if they can't be used offensively. |
| - Score: 2 |
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