Apple Inc. has been involved in numerous patent lawsuits against its competitors. One of its most recent and controversial one, is the patent lawsuit against Samsung. As the trial comes to a close, we want to whose side are you taking?
We’re not going to discuss the technicalities of the trial, but in a nutshell Apple’s patent lawsuit against Samsung revolves around two things, Design and User Interface.
In terms of design, we have to agree devices involved in this trial (25 to be exact, including the Galaxy S and S2) do bare resemblance to Apple’s design in some degree but not entirely. Regarding the user interface, Apple claims that Samsung copied three of their patented technologies for the TouchWiz UI which involves multiple gestures scrolling, zooming and panning and “scrollbackâ€.
Samsung isn’t just going away without a fight as they also file a patent lawsuit against the Cupertino company which involves infringing their patent over 3GPP and Utility technologies and using it on the iPhone and iPad.
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Of course with any other lawsuit there’s always money involved. The stakes are high for both companies. If proven guilty, Apple’ asking a total over $2 billion from Samsung for the damages that the patent infringement has caused. As for Samsung, the South Korean tech giant’s asking price for their patent lawsuit is little over USD14 for every iPhone and iPad sold worldwide. iPad units sold alone amass to approximately 67 million as of April of this year, so go figure.
The case was stated, the evidences were presented, and closing arguments were said; now it’s up to the jury to decide whether or not the Samsung is guilty of infringing Apple’s patents or the other way around. It’s going to be interesting to see the outcome of this trial.
Update: A jury just handed down a guilty verdict against Samsung and ordered the company to pay Apple damages to the amount of $1 billion. – Yuga
Hahahaha.. Apple is just putting a bad name to Samsung. The Korean brand is a threat to the All American brand they (with components mostly made in Asia lolx). Samsung noted a huge increase in sales over the past few quarters and Apple needs to do something to stop it or they die.
Dont worry Samsungistas the case is subject for revisit according to phonearena. And yes.. Ang kapal naman ng mukha ng Apple to claim these patents.. Their name itself iPhone is not theirs.. If not because of the generosity of Cisco wala sanang iPhone ngayon…
Read:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_iPhone#section_4
hahaha talo samsung. gaya gaya kasi eh! buti nga. bayad kayo ng 1 Billion USD.
wala tayong magagawa sa opinyon at pananaw mo sa issueng to bata. Tingin mo all original iphone mo eh no? Di mo nakikita na inaabuso lang ng Apple ang broken patent system sa US. Patented rectangular round-corner my a**..
Ignorance is bliss tol.
Hala talo samsung!! Si Harvey Specter siguro kinuha ng apple ahaha
And with Mike Ross handling the case research, no way Apple can lose. Pearson Hardman rocks!
I hope they both lose so my Optimus L7 doesn’t look bad. I applied for an event on LG facebook page. Hopefully, I can win another one for my girlfriend or it I could win 4X HD for her, it will be superb.
Samsung doesn’t give a hoot about its phones. It gets a fat subsidy from the Korean government and its main products are its chips and lcds.
And on a personal side: ang pinakabastos ay ang mga Koreano. I’ve seen how they treat their “sub-species” workers.
jury wins, imagine brand new MacBooks for them, new iPads, maybe even the iPhone 5.
APPLE wins! http://live.cnet.com/Event/Apple_vs_Samsung_verdict
21 hrs of deliberation… was the court american?
And consumers lose.. Happy ka? Haha! Di nagiisip.
patent wars and troll wars – so non-sense, only lawyers gain something.
i’m for samsung.
a deck of cards is rectangular with rounded corners. they existed long before the iphone.
the palm pilot had icons to represent apps. palm pilots existed before the iphone.
some palm pilots did not have physical keyboards.
apple’s retina display is just marketing. more subpixels in a low-res screen.
touch screen is just innovation/improvement over the use of a stylus.
apple is just over reacting. in fact they hate android so much they’d prolly do anything to kill android. steve jobs said so.
letting apple win is like killing the blessing of technology and innovation.
also, their patents are way too general, that they resemble elements that can be easily found in nature, available to everyone.
remember the mouse that the Xerox company invented for the PC desktop… everybody is now using it… Steve Job copied it… Xerox did not complain about it… because everybody benefited… Everybody is benefiting from Apple and Samsung… So why kill the goose that laid the golden egg… These two Giant companies are just plain selfish…