“During the last 24 hours there have been various filings with the Federal Circuit in the cases relating to Apple’s preliminary injunctions against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the Galaxy Nexus smartphone,” Florian Mueller reports for FOSS Patents. “I just wanted to highlight the most interesting development: a couple of Samsung filings say that Apple’s enforcement activities include letters to ‘to many carriers and retail companies that currently sell’ the banned products, telling them that ‘[a]t a minimum’ they are required to ‘immediately remov[e] for sale the [banned product] from all physical and online venues under [their] direction or control.’”

Mueller reports, “Samsung filed letters from the San Francisco-based law firm of Taylor & Company sent on Apple’s behalf to downstream customers. Apparently, letters relating to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 went out on June 28, and letters concerning the Galaxy Nexus were sent on July 3 (before the injunction was stayed).”

“Samsung claims that ‘Apple’s menacing letters greatly overreach, incorrectly claiming that third-party retailers are subject to the prohibitions of the preliminary injunction, which they clearly are not,’ in Samsung’s opinion, ‘they are permitted to sell their existing inventory, even without a stay,’” Mueller reports. “However, both preliminary injunctions clearly relate not only to Samsung’s employees, agents etc. (including its subsidiaries and ‘partners’) but also to ‘those acting in concert with any of them.’”

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