“Samsung Electronics Co., locked in patent disputes with Apple Inc., may scrap the release of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia unless it wins approval to sell its newest tablet computer in the next two weeks, a lawyer said,” Joe Schneider reports for Bloomberg. “Samsung is willing to abandon plans to launch the product because missing the Christmas season would result in the new tablet being ‘dead,’ Neil Young, a lawyer representing the Suwon, South Korea-based company, told Federal Court Justice Annabelle Bennett in Sydney today.”
MacDailyNews Take: Then he said, “Out of the blue and into the black. You pay for this, but they give you that. And once you’re gone, you can’t come back. When you’re out of the blue and into the black.”
“Apple, which claims the Samsung tablet infringes its patents, has delayed the release of the Galaxy 10.1 for two months in Australia by seeking a temporary judicial ban on sales until after a trial on the patent claim,” Schneider reports. “It’s part of a dispute between the two companies that spans four continents and began in April, when Apple sued in the U.S. and claimed Samsung’s Galaxy products ‘slavishly’ copied the designs of iPhones and iPads. A German court in August temporarily banned sales of Galaxy tablets, a ruling Samsung has appealed.”
Schneider reports, “Samsung had offered to agree to a quick trial on Apple’s patent claim if Apple agreed to drop its demand for a ban on the sale of the Galaxy 10.1, Young said. Apple rejected the proposal, he said. ‘We’re willing to pull out all the stops to get it out by mid-October,’ Young said. ‘We’re absolutely desperate.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Tough shit. Stop stealing patented IP and maybe you’ll find yourselves in less desperate straits, Samsung.
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Love the quote from Neil Young !
This is just a play for sympathy. It’s not going to work.
Only a fool offers nothing for something and expects to make a deal.
Boycott Samsung
Hello Samsung in the Sand
how lucky can Australia get
I feel pity for Samsung. They have copied from other companies for years and haven’t any troubles so far. They are spoiled and think they can do it to Apple, too. But this time justice reigns. Better come up your own innovation next time.
Hey Hey My My, Rock and Roll Will Never Die! Can’t say as much for the Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Didn’t Neil already blame Apple for killing the music industry? Now, he’s blaming Apple for killing the Tab in Australia? What’s next?
Agree; S(h)amsung is trying the sympathy card. But has anybody seen its new ad for its new Galaxy S II phone? The tonality of the ad shows Samsung for what it is: overconfident, conceited, cold & uncaring. I would have rejected the ad at the brief stage as it doesn’t help in winning new true & committed fans (as opposed to specs-worshippers) of the brand especially in the light of all these news about S(h)amsung’s compulsion to copy. Fortunately, I will never consent to work for a company that I do not respect.
Apple are being pathetic. If any of you had really used a Samsung you’d know just how different they really are to Apple devices.
Yes my friends who bought the hype admits it is a POS compared to a real iPad.
They now regret their choice.
My take
Too bad, so sad!
The thing is everyone should have known better.
Huh? I don’t think this lawsuit has anything to do with how the devices function, but how they look.