“Samsung’s lead counsel, Quinn Emanuel’s star patent litigator Charles Verhoeven, is currently in Washington DC to represent Motorola at an ITC hearing against Apple. That hearing began yesterday (with a pre-hearing conference, so it really just starts today) and will last until December 16. By the time he returns and possibly meets with Apple’s lead counsel, it will be too late for Apple to have its motion heard before the end of the year,” Florian Mueller reports for FOSS Patents. “What riles Apple is that he doesn’t waive the requirement for an in-person M&C (Apple believes the court would allow a conference call instead) or authorize one of his deputies to discuss this with Apple’s lawyers.”
“The California case is on a tight schedule. Apple succeeded (not entirely, but largely) with a request for an expedited trial. The trial is scheduled to begin on July 30, 2012, but it remains to be seen whether the case will be trial-ready by then,” Mueller reports. “Delays can always happen. Samsung would apparently like to slow things down to whatever extent the court ultimately allows.”
Mueller reports, “There are two timing issues here. The primary issue is that Samsung is, according to Apple, uncooperative with respect to the production of evidence. The secondary one is that the unavailability and inflexibility of Samsung’s lead counsel now prevent Apple from tackling the primary issue through a motion to compel.”
Read more in the full article here.
What about this:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/12/09/apples-plan-to-sue-the-pants-off-everyone-backfires-european-judge-issues-injunction-rules-that-3g-enabled-apple-products-infringe-on-motorola-patent/
Good one DAVE, here’s hoping your job gets outsourced to China in the new year.
What about it? It has nothing to do with THIS story troll. Those are FRAND patents. Apple will win the appeal.
The courts are aware if Apple wins all these cases, they will own a near monopoly over this vast new communications reality, and there is widespread feeling that assuring competition is more important than strict enforcement of clearly valid patents. Through this bias, the genius of Apple suffers from their own success, and the purveyors of mediocrity built from stolen IP are allowed to survive.
M159,
Genius????? You are fucking kidding me. Without the flim flam man Apple is in for the long decline.
You’ve clearly never used Apple products. Many a hater has turned into an Apple fan when they use their products, so my advice is that you stay far away from Apple stores. Keep living inside your own personal reality distortion field.
I can’t believe it. You’ve named yourself after your Samsung tablet!!!
Crash,
flim-flam man? What have you done with your life?
Been hearing twits just exactly like you ever since AAPL was supposedly going out of business and the stock was in the single digits.
The Andread fanboys are so miserable that they have to come to our happy Mac forums to drop troll poop.
Understandably, if I had to be Google’s Bitch 24/7, I’d be miserable too.