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Apple’s legal campaign against Samsung backfired spectacularly yesterday, according to a report by Bloomberg, after being ordered to place a public a notice on its UK site and in several national newspapers alerting people to the High Court ruling on July 9 that Samsung didn’t copy the designs for the iPad.
Judge Colin Birss, who presided over the case between the two firms earlier this month said at the time that Samsung’s Galaxy tablet didn’t “have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design," and "the overall impression produced is different. They are not as cool,” adding that informed customers were unlikely to confuse the two devices.
He has ordered the Cupertino-based firm to display an outline of the court’s decision on the homepage of its UK website for six months in order to correct any impression among Britons that the South Korean electronics giant was copying Apple’s iPad.
At the conclusion of the July 9 High Court hearing, the American retailer had stated “it's no coincidence that Samsung's latest products look a lot like the iPhone and iPad, from the shape of the hardware to the user interface and even the packaging. This kind of blatant copying is wrong and, as we've said many times before, we need to protect Apple's intellectual property when companies steal our ideas.”
While the precise content of the court-ordered notice is yet to be decided, Apple will also be required to publish the notice in several national newspapers and media publications, including the Financial Times, Daily Mail, Guardian Mobile magazine and T3. Richard Hacon, representing the US retailer said in court that it amounted to advertising for Samsung, and “no company likes to refer to a rival on its website.”
The Judge declined to grant Samsung’s request for an injunction against Apple to prevent them making public statements that the Galaxy tablets infringed its design rights, saying “they are entitled to their opinion.”
“Should Apple continue to make excessive legal claims based on such generic designs, innovation in the industry could be harmed and consumer choice unduly limited,” Samsung said in a statement after the hearing, adding that the American firm’s previous comments have caused real commercial harm.
Apple did not respond to requests for further comment, but the company is expected to appeal the ruling.
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However Apple was the first to steal from xerox and that's a fact.
It isn't a "fact", Xerox and Apple agreed to let Apple in, in exchange for stock. Nothing was stolen.
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It isn't a "fact", Xerox and Apple agreed to let Apple in, in exchange for stock. Nothing was stolen.
Nothing was stolen in the legal sense, but when you consider the fact that Apple likes to say that they invented everything under the sun related to personal electronics, one can understand why people use the term.
Apple didn't invent as much stuff as they claim, most of their success comes from repackaging existing products and passing them off as their own. And while all companies do this to some extent, only Apple makes a big deal of how amazingly clever they are.
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Knockoff? Outside of the fact that they are rectangular in shape, these products are nothing alike.
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Finally a judge with a working brain! This is a hilariously perfect outcome for a dirty company that does nothing but run around patent trolling.
If only judges in the US were more like this. I honestly cannot comprehend why anyone in 2012 will pay $700+ for a "flagship" phone with a 3.5" screen...
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It is, but it present an marketing opportunity for Apple as well, if they play it right, they can portray android tabs as 'legally uncool' in a funny way
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Apple was destroyed because of their own mismanagement and ala bad competitive agreeements with other companies that didn't hold the same interest, I.e. MS. Apple will continue because the mobile market is all they have left, and their shift to mobile to beat / "not compete" with the desktop depends on it in their eyes. I would expect more of this nonsense. Apple can retail their hardware however they choose, but consumers are ALWAYS going to go for the cheaper products if they can be just as good. Especially since consumers don't care to pay 2000%+ Markup on parts they could buy cheaper if they chose their own parts and get better quality, faster parts in the process. Oh gee? Is that really a decision?
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Lol, you're calling Galaxy tabs knockoffs?
Tell that to those chinese manufacturers who really carbon copy apple designs, and yet apple does nothing against them, why? because they know those tablets are not real competition.
Now, Samsung OTOH, is a threat. That's why apple keeps whining and whining
Another case of guest trolling, first of all 'they' are koreans, not chinese. And Samsung's sales speak for themselves.
You are an *****. Read what the guess said again and apologies if you are half the man you make out to be.
Fool...
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Apple was destroyed because of their own mismanagement and ala bad competitive agreeements with other companies that didn't hold the same interest, I.e. MS. Apple will continue because the mobile market is all they have left, and their shift to mobile to beat / "not compete" with the desktop depends on it in their eyes. I would expect more of this nonsense. Apple can retail their hardware however they choose, but consumers are ALWAYS going to go for the cheaper products if they can be just as good. Especially since consumers don't care to pay 2000%+ Markup on parts they could buy cheaper if they chose their own parts and get better quality, faster parts in the process. Oh gee? Is that really a decision?
To the involve parties in the post just above me:
This is a guest troll (what I quoted).
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