“Lawyers for Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. on Friday offered Apple Inc. a deal on a patent dispute over the two companies’ tablet computers that could allow the Korean company to launch its Galaxy Tab 10.1 device in Australia,” David Fickling and Ross Kelly report for The Wall Street Journal. “The agreement, if accepted by Apple, could see the tablet’s launch next week, Samsung’s attorney David Catterns told Dow Jones Newswires after a hearing at the country’s Federal Court in Sydney.”
“In Sydney, Apple is seeking a temporary sales injunction ahead of a final hearing that could go on for months,” Fickling and Kelly report. “At stake is Samsung’s access to the Australian market, where Apple has sold an estimated 500,000 iPads, according to a Credit Suisse report in June.”
Fickling and Kelly report, “It wasn’t clear what benefit Apple would gain from any agreement, as details of the proposed deal were not discussed in full in front of the court. But Apple’s attorney, Stephen Burley, conceded there was some potential benefit from an agreement on the matter. ‘(Samsung’s) inconvenience would be diminished and we would be comforted’ by such a deal, he said.”
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Looks like Samsung is starting to feel the heat.
Samdung just blinked!
=:~)
Yep. Nail them to the wall!!
To be a fly on the wall….
Anything done here may have strong non-legal precedent for any other on-going related suits in other parts of the world. Regardless of the quote from Apple’s attorney, seems Samdung’s actions to settle indicate their current position is much more than just “inconvenienced”.
Nail them to let them understand the implications of blatant and wanton copying !!!!!
Maybe it is Apple that is blinking?
Brasil has proved to be a bust for making iPads.
Sales are down and falling. The threats to the launch of their new iPhone are real. which will hurt them in even more in an Obama economy.
Samsung may have them by the sort hairs globably and Apple knows it.
Wow, someone’s delusional dreaming about weak rumors. In a couple weeks, Apple will report their results, and we’ll see who is blinking and who is all bluster.
Dream on, Mr. MSCE. Why are you wasting time here? Don’t you have Registries to repair somewhere?
Speaking of micro-softies and MCSE’s….
What should do you do when a MCSE knocks on your front door?
You should pay him for the Pizza, of course……
Rob? Rob Elderly? Is that you Rob? How’s the wife? Is the dog still alive and kicking?
We love you Rob. Don’t hide yourself under a fake handle. Take full credit for your brilliant insights.
Sales are falling? What are you smoking?
Anonymous coward ‘Microsoft Store’ = troll. 😆
Slamming Apple these days is an act of desperate stupidity.
What fantasy universe are you living in? Everything you’ve just said is bogus; proveably false. Do you honestly believe people are so stupid not to have read the reports denying everything above as FUD generated by certain media? Brazil, for example, is only just coming on-line. It’s not a bust. Jezzus, what an asshole.
Zune tang?????? Is that you??? 🙂
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Samsung probably offered Apple a slab of Fosters and a couple of tickets to the grand final. 😉
BOOM…Samsung blinked. Expect this to ricochet around the world’s courts, in Apple’s favour
Wouldn’t any settlement include pulling all current tablets and redesigning them as to not duplicate in every respect an Apple iPad? Me thinks Apple would expect no less. This would take time and probably also kill Samsung’s effarts to be in the tablet game.
So far, ‘Samsungs effarts’ stink!
Samsung settlement offer: “Please don’t beat us up, and we won’t get our blood on you.”
No more mops for you Samsung! 😛
Me thinks the Apple lawyer talks a bit too much. Was it really necessary for him to open up about the merit of the settlement before agreeing to or dismissing it?
Apple isn’t stupid anymore. Samsung will copy form factor even more, and rename features copied from Apple iOS. Don’t trust those liars for anything.