On Friday, August 24, 2012, the jury verdict in Samsung’s trial against Apple was announced at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The following is an internal memo that reflects Samsung’s position regarding the verdict:
We initially proposed to negotiate with Apple instead of going to court, as they had been one of our most important customers. However, Apple pressed on with a lawsuit, and we have had little choice but to counter-sue, so that we can protect our company.
Certainly, we are very disappointed by the verdict at the US District Court for the Northern District of California (NDCA), and it is regrettable that the verdict has caused concern amongst our employees, as well as our loyal customers.
However, the judge’s final ruling remains, along with a number of other procedures. We will continue to do our utmost until our arguments have been accepted.
The NDCA verdict starkly contrasts decisions made by courts in a number of other countries, such as the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, and Korea, which have previously ruled that we did not copy Apple’s designs. These courts also recognized our arguments concerning our standards patents.
History has shown there has yet to be a company that has won the hearts and minds of consumers and achieved continuous growth, when its primary means to competition has been the outright abuse of patent law, not the pursuit of innovation.
We trust that the consumers and the market will side with those who prioritize innovation over litigation, and we will prove this beyond doubt.
Source: Samsung Electronics Official Global Blog
MacDailyNews Take: Yes, thermonuclear crater, consumers and the market will side with those who prioritize innovation over litigation.
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Wow, no remorse.
remorse requires conscience.
The more so Samsung lies about Apple “pressing the lawsuit”. Steven Jobs himself — with all of his thermonuclear temper — was withholding lawsuit for about year: from spring 2010 to spring 2011, and tried to directly negotiate himself with Samsung more than one time.
Samesong – saving face at all costs even if they have to be two-faced to do it.
No remorse = no lesson learned. I’m hoping the Good Judge will see their comments and treble the damages.
Scum
>We initially proposed to negotiate with Apple instead of going to court, as they had been one of our most important customers. However, Apple pressed on with a lawsuit, and we have had little choice but to counter-sue, so that we can protect our company.<
Say what? I thought Jobs tried to settle out of court with them. Now it was their idea?
No, it was not. They are lying, thieving, unapologetic scum.
“We regret we were caught stealing intellectual property and profiting from it and we regret we must now compensate our victim.”
Samsung, the Black Knight. “Come back here, I’ll chew your legs off!”
lol, perfect.
All right, we’ll call it a draw.
Samsung didn’t “initially propose to negotiate.” Don’t be fooled peeps. Also, Samsung wasn’t trying to negotiate but rather force Apple to accept their terms and then continue copying. Apple saw that Samsung was ripping them off just as Google did.
Samsung says, “History has shown there has yet to be a company that has won the hearts and minds of consumers and achieved continuous growth, when its primary means to competition has been the outright abuse of patent law, not the pursuit of innovation.” If Samsung, and others weren’t stealing Apple’s work, Apple wouldn’t be aggressively seeking patents for their own creations! Besides, Apple HAS won the hearts of minds of most of the world, except downtown Korea perhaps.
Samsung still wants to undo the patent system with this announcement. Without the laws, they would be busy copying everything they can and flooding the market with Samsung junk. The fact is they don’t and would rather soften the laws so they can continue copying and stealing.
What World do you speak of? The one that is ruled by MSFT Windows and Android? Apple does of course do well, but please easy with the use of the term World!
Please, easy with the name Pat.
you mad pat? Your tears taste wonderful
Brace for punitive damages and injunctions Samsing
This is probably the stupidest thing Samsung could choose to do: not by appealing the verdict, but by acting as if they did nothing wrong. If this is the result of the ‘helpful’ legal advice they’ve been getting from Google, then they deserve what they will get. This will play right into Apple’s hands when the hearing for requesting a ban on Samsung’s products finally arrives.
Samsung has a lot in common with the Borg, they assimilate other companies technology without conscience (values), they picked the wrong enemy!
regrettable
like the choice Samsung made to copy
they could have chosen to pay for the license or innovate instead
you make your choice and live with the (regrettable) consequences
I am so sorry that I bought a Samsung TV 6 years ago…It’ll never happen again. Samsung death to you!
i too bought a Samsung TV!!!!
Luckily for me, I’ve gotten by fine without a TV of any kind for the past four years so I haven’t been in danger of getting a Samsung one in ages, but I recently had to buy a new refrigerator and, lo and behold, the first choice the salesperson at the store recommended me was indeed a Sammy. I quickly told him that it was out of the question and thankfully he didn’t press the issue further, lol. I may have gone into a bit of a rant otherwise =D
“We trust that the consumers and the market will side with those who prioritize innovation over litigation, and we will prove this beyond doubt.”
The funny thing with this Orwellian corporate double-speak is that the public knows Apple is an innovator. That’s their whole “thing”. Steve Jobs, reinventing industries, innovative industrial design, making the whole widget, etc.
This kind of talk from Samsung will get the googlegeeks and fandroids all hot an bothered, but the general public will see through it all.
Regrettable, as in “it’s regrettable that we couldn’t pull the wool over the eyes of the jury”.
What a bunch of wankers!
=:~)
Just goes to show how deluded the ivory tower inhabitants are at SameDung. I’m a Korean-American and I find Samsung to be a despicable company that is only where it is because of its cozy and corrupt relationship with South Korea’s dictatorship governments of the 60’s through the 80’s. By the 90’s when real democracy had set in, it was too late. Samsung had entrenched itself and spread its slimy tentacles all over the Korean government, politics, economy, culture and society.
Samsung and other chaebol conglomerates in Korea were mainly propped up by heavy government subsidies during the dictatorial presidency of Park Chung-Hee (assassinated in 1978). They bribed and cheated their way to the top through exploitation of cheap Korean labor and then stealing key Japanese technologies. There’s really nothing very admirable about the histories of these corrupt conglomerates that more resemble Mafia families.
I love Korea but the way these sprawling conglomerates dominate every aspect of the country is repulsive and very sad. More Americans need to know about Samsung. Just do a Google/Wikipedia search on Lee Kun-Hee – the CEO/Chairman of the Samsung Group and the youngest son of the founder. That explains it all.
And it was only months ago that Lee and his siblings got in an ugly public spat fighting over their father’s inheritance – some $600 million or so. They were calling each other thieves and all kinds of other nasty names and Lee clenched his teeth in a TV interview and said that his brother won’t be getting a penny from him. The Korean public got so disgusted that Lee had to make a public apology. That’s Samsung for ya.
Thank you for your insight. Very interesting.
I would almost guarantee this is Samsung’s American lawyers pushing for the appeal. More money to them and the their buddies on the Apple side. If the law was set up that lawyers get absolutely nothing if they lose a case and had to cover all legal fees of winning side, there would be no appeal. Justice is finally decided and they get to appeal? This was not decided on summary judgement by a judge but by a jury.
we are very disappointed by……
What’s actually disappointing, Samsung, is your intransigent REFUSAL to admit your guilt OR to actually innovate anything. Instead you FAKE your technology and LIE about its originality and WHINE WHINE WHINE when you get caught and properly spanked for your dirty deeds. Why do you bother to remain in business if all you can do is PLAGIARIZE and PARASITIZE.
Samsung, please go die and do the world a favor.
abuse of patent law, not the pursuit of innovation…
OIC! Pull the old propaganda trick of LYING the OPPOSITE of what is true in order to fend off that exact criticism of yourself. Yawn. Seen that a few million times before. FAIL! It has now been proven that YOU sought to abuse patent law by skirting around it with your blatant mimicry of Apple. It is YOU who absolutely REFUSE to innovate, then cry fowl when you’re CAUGHT RED-HANDED.
Samsung, please go die and do the world a favor.
We trust that the consumers and the market will side with those who prioritize innovation over litigation…
That is exactly what has happened and will continue to happen. Thank you Apple for being THE greatest innovative force in computer technology. FRACK YOU Samsung for wasting everyone’s time and money with this needless lawsuit, needless if YOU lazy bums had bothered to innovate yourselves.
Samsung, please go die and do the world a favor.
I love how they try to paint their employees and customers at Apple’s victims.
Between Dingdong and Giggle, I am not sure which one spews more absolute crap from their lips.
Giggle at Siri Launch – Your phone should not be your assistant, you should not talk to it.
Giggle about a year later – Yeah buddy, voice is where it’s at and that’s a fact Jack.
Giggle – We better help Dingdong, give them access to our law firm… damn, they lost, “This does not really affect us, no, not really, no, seriously, we are good.”
Dingdong – We tried to negotiate but they sued, HUH? No, Dingdong, Apple set the terms and you said Eff off!
May they sleep with each other with the scorpions, black widows and cobras in their nice neat little bed.
F U Dingdong and Giggle, F U.
Thats very cute.. I’m stealing it. -Giggles- -DingDong-
Hueeheeehee
As far as I personally am concerned, I will never ever ever buy a Samsung product of any kind. Thieves and liars that is all they are. I would love to see the American public boycott all Samsung products and let them know, theft is not acceptable