It’s becoming hard to keep all these patent attacks and counterattacks straight — but at least we knew this one was coming. Why just France and Italy?
Under French and Italian laws, companies can seek and courts can order a ban on sales of a product even before it hits the market, Samsung spokesman James Chung told Reuters.
With this in mind, why not just seek an injunction on the iPad 3? And iPhone 5? Or why bother at all? Samsung’s yet to triumph in this whole campaign. And yet, they persist. Patent war. Patent war never changes. [Reuters]
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BenDTU
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 8:48 AMWouldn’t the fact the iPhone 4S is so similar to the iPhone 4 hurt their case as far as them being seen to be actively acting on their patents?
Peter
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 10:16 AMPayback’s a bitch.
Nick
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 11:56 AMWhat payback, r-tard? This won’t fly in the courts.
Peter
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 12:47 AMLike 9 out of 10 patents?
Ynefel
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 1:20 PMAll Apple were trying to do in their lawsuits against Samsung was delay them to let the iPhone 4S announcement go off with as little competition as possible. Maybe because they knew the iPhone 4S announcement would go down like the proverbial lead balloon, which it apparently did – they didn’t need people looking elsewhere.
It’s only fair that Samsung turn around and try to delay them as well – petty or not, it’s a legitimate strategy.
Norgan
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 5:26 PMI agree with Ynefel, they deserve everything they get and i hope Samsung get this.
Rise up against the juggernaut!
James
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 5:30 PMLOL Samsung is giving up the fight over the Galaxy Tab in australia only to start a whole new costly one?
Good luck with that.
Liam Johnson
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 6:47 PM“Samsung’s yet to triumph in this whole campaign. And yet, they persist. Patent war. Patent war never changes.”
Sam, to be dead-honest with your, I’m getting sick of your bullshit excuse for journalism when it comes to anything to do with Apple. You are so insanely biased, it’s not even funny. When Apple sues Samsung, it’s ‘protecting’, and ‘just’, but when Samsung fights back against Apple’s obvious patent-trolling, it’s all of a sudden a lost cause?
Liam Johnson
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 6:48 PMyou*
Peter
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 12:47 AMI think you gotta make peace with their biases, doesn’t mean you have to accept everything they write though. I don’t agree with a lot of the Apple articles myself, but I do really appreciate some leeway we’re getting in return in both content acknowledgement (S stickers! ;p)
Just go for the meat of the articles, and pray Steve Jobs doesn’t come back 3 days later and things should cool down soon.