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Apple Wants to Win Samsung's Won

posted by janrinok on Tuesday April 01 2014, @08:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the winner-will-win-wonga-in-the-form-of-won dept.

gishzida writes:

A Reuters story continues with news of the on-going litigation between Apple and Samsung:

Apple and Samsung return to federal court on Tuesday for opening statements in their latest patent battle, with the iPhone maker expected to present more detailed evidence in its attempt to win a U.S. ban on sales of several Samsung smartphones.

Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd have been litigating around the world for nearly three years. Jurors awarded the iPhone maker about $930 million after a 2012 trial in San Jose, California, but Apple failed to persuade U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh to issue a permanent injunction against the sale of Samsung phones.A sales ban would be a far more serious threat to Samsung, which earned $7.7 billion in the quarter that ended in December. Samsung's mobile division, which includes smartphones, generated operating profit of 5.47 trillion won ($5.1 billion).

 
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by NullPtr on Wednesday April 02 2014, @03:53AM

    by NullPtr (3786) on Wednesday April 02 2014, @03:53AM (#24654)

    I slide to unlock my front door. How much innovation went into "do an electronic version of it"? Sounds like 2 seconds work. Was the recycle bin also covered? Does the developer of the first chess game own chess? I can understand a new, computer-only game (doom, manic miner, whatever) being worthy of protection in some way for an amount of time, but slide to unlock? How was that not laughed out of court?

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  • (Score: 1) by BasilBrush on Wednesday April 02 2014, @11:26AM

    by BasilBrush (3994) on Wednesday April 02 2014, @11:26AM (#24901)

    There were a decade of smartphones before the iPhone. And at least 5 years of touch screen smartphones. If it was so obvious why did none of them do it before Apple?

    And why since Apple did is has it suddenly become so irreplaceable for the copiers like Google and Samsung?

    It's easy to claim obviousness after someone's already demonstrated it. It's rather more difficult to be the first to actually do it.