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Samsung sues Apple in South Korea over iOS Notifications feature

Friday, December 21, 2012 · 4:30 pm · 31 Comments

“According to BrightWire, a business-to-business resource for portfolio managers, the Korean online news site iNews24 is reported today that ‘Samsung Electronics has brought a lawsuit against Apple in a court in South Korea over its ‘Notification Center’ patent infringement,’” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple.

“The delay in launching the lawsuit may have been due to Google’s patent pending notification patents not being officially granted,” Purcher reports. “However, that changed last month when one of their notification patents was indeed granted under the title ‘Priority inbox notifications and synchronization for mobile-messaging application.’ This may have been enough for Samsung to get the lawsuit rolling.”

Read more in the full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: Shouldn’t Google be the one suing Apple, not Samsung? It’s Google’s patent, not Samsung’s. This is like a regional McDonald’s franchisee suing Burger King over Big Mac knockoffs; wrong guy filed the lawsuit.

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Tags: google, ios, Notifications Center, patent infringement, patents, samsung

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KarlV

Friday, December 21, 2012 - 4:35 pm · Reply

I don’t like Sansung any more. I used to buy their monitors and cameras. My last monitor how ever was a ViewSonic and my next camera will be a Nikon or Sony. Samsung is just ridiculous.
David

Friday, December 21, 2012 - 4:36 pm · Reply

Frikin iEnough already!
Four More YEARS

Friday, December 21, 2012 - 4:41 pm · Reply

Isn’t ALL that stuff part of android and therefore OPEN?
derss

Friday, December 21, 2012 - 4:44 pm · Reply

Not sure how strong this notifications patent could be.

My old Sony-Ericsson had united list of events, too.

Basically every computer log since forever is a notification center.
Gkmac

Friday, December 21, 2012 - 4:50 pm · Reply

Google can’t be seen filling lawsuits for the kind of patents they publicly rally against. So they get their buddies at Samsung to do it for them.
Ballmer's left nut

Friday, December 21, 2012 - 5:12 pm · Reply

Will Judge Koh be presiding over the Korean case as well? Might as well make out like a bandit while she can.
- Joey
  
  Friday, December 21, 2012 - 7:22 pm · Reply
  
  Yes. She has applied for a “visiting scholar” visa and will probably ask the court to be an “ad litem” judge so she can lend her vast experience relating to Apple/Samsung litigation.
Joel

Friday, December 21, 2012 - 5:42 pm · Reply

Hey MDN… Shouldn’t Apple be suing google instead of Samsung? It’s the same thing you fool!
- Paul
  
  Friday, December 21, 2012 - 5:53 pm · Reply
  
  Joel, are you a complete prat or do you just act like one?
  Samdung is the infringer/copier Apple is the infringed upon Victim. Simple, VICTIM sues INFRINGER.
  
  In this case the same does not apply and MDN is correct and you are a moron.
- Chaz
  
  Friday, December 21, 2012 - 5:54 pm · Reply
  
  No I think you have it wrong. Apple is the patent holder using Samsung hype product whose operation violates apples patent.
- krquet
  
  Friday, December 21, 2012 - 11:13 pm · Reply
  
  Apple is using its own patents to sue Samsung and others. Samsung (and previously HTC), in this case, is using Google’s patents (borrowed mostly) to sue Apple. Samsung had previously used their own patents (many of them are FRANDs) against Apple.
  
  Meanwhile, Apple could sue Google but since Google is not profiting directly from Android, the incentive is greater for Apple to sue those who are profiting directly first. I hope the distinction is clearer to you now.
  
  I’m no legal expert, but I think Apple (or one of its rich friends) can now take advantage of the new law and anonymously demand the USPTO to investigate and hopefully invalidate this Notification patent by Google. Also, there might be plenty of prior art on this.
- derss
  
  Saturday, December 22, 2012 - 2:02 am · Reply
  
  The fool here is obviously not MDN. Apple does not sue Google only because they do not directly profit from the IP theft. It is next to impossible to make them paying money.
  
  If Google thinks that Apple stole their IP, there is no reason why Google does not do it themselves.
shinolashow

Friday, December 21, 2012 - 5:54 pm · Reply

apple might as well write the 150k check now…
- Gkmac
  
  Friday, December 21, 2012 - 7:11 pm · Reply
  
  150k Korean Won (about $130)? Is it worth that much?
D2

Friday, December 21, 2012 - 5:55 pm · Reply

Not the same thing you stupidiot.
- Now, Now...
  
  Friday, December 21, 2012 - 9:46 pm · Reply
  
  “Stupidiot”… I like that. Gonna have to ‘borrow’ that from time to time!
Fairs Fair

Friday, December 21, 2012 - 6:01 pm · Reply

Will the the Korean court appoint judge Billy Joe Yeeha-Cowboy or Judge Kim Il Koh the 2nd?
Apple

Friday, December 21, 2012 - 7:23 pm · Reply

This is apple fan site! Whatever against us will be dealt with, even if you are right! Dumb…..
Buster

Friday, December 21, 2012 - 7:31 pm · Reply

Geez….Samsung is like a frikken hemmorroid. What a PITA!
TheMacAdvocate

Friday, December 21, 2012 - 11:00 pm · Reply

Let’s see if Samsung gets the same shitty treatment in their home country as Apple did in theirs. Maybe we can get a judge from Westchester to preside over the case?
Thomas

Saturday, December 22, 2012 - 1:05 am · Reply

It actually makes sense that the handset manufacturers file the lawsuit instead of Google. Since Google doesn’t make money directly from Android, it would be hard for them to claim financial damages. I expectthe other manufacturers to follow suit (no pun intended).
fricfrac

Saturday, December 22, 2012 - 7:22 am · Reply

Why is everyone assuming Samsung is using Google’s notification patent? It’s entirely possible that they have their own patent and were just waiting to see what Google’s patent contained when published.
Anyways…I thought iOS notifications was a web app?
combs

Saturday, December 22, 2012 - 7:29 am · Reply

SAMSUNG LIKE THE REST OF THE COUNTRY IS UNGRATEFUL FOR WHAT THEY GET FROM THE US. THEY GRAB AND STILL WANT TO CHALLENGE. WE KNOW HOW THE IPHONE WAS COPIED TO THE T INCLUDING ITS SIZE WHEN I WAS IN KOREA. CANT UNDERSTAND HOW APPLE WAS DONE IN. WE SAW WHAT HAPPENED IN KOREA AND HOW IT WAS KEPT AWAY FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD. THE SAME WAY THEY COPY THE MUSIC, SILENTLY WITHIN ITS WALLS. WHAT A SELFISH UNGRATEFUL RACE!!!! ITS THE LITTLE FOXES THAT SPOIL THE VINES; AMERICA OPEN YOUR EYES
- Rorschach
  
  Saturday, December 22, 2012 - 7:44 am · Reply
  
  Stop shouting, and turn off caps lock. You come across as a complete dick.
  - Jim
    
    Saturday, December 22, 2012 - 1:05 pm · Reply
    
    Efficient explanation for why legalese is commonly in all caps: It tells us the true character of the chaps doing the writing!
trondude

Saturday, December 22, 2012 - 10:31 am · Reply

Samdung won’t stop because of the ridiculous Asian custom of saving face. And Asians are the hypocrites of the world.
- Thomas
  
  Saturday, December 22, 2012 - 12:20 pm · Reply
  
  Sounds like you havr the “ridiculous” American custom of being both arrogant and ignorant.
Really

Saturday, December 22, 2012 - 12:46 pm · Reply

I rarely agree with MDN but your take made me laugh this morning
Tflint

Saturday, December 22, 2012 - 1:36 pm · Reply

Can they find a South Korean judge that doesn’t have some family member who works for Samsung? In Korea it’s all in the family.
janekg

Saturday, December 22, 2012 - 2:08 pm · Reply

What an expensive, morass of legalese and counter legalese this whole ‘patent issue’ has become. When ‘perpetrators’ become the ‘aggrieved’ and the Courts become nothing more than an expensive exercise in ‘futility’ the end result has to be more ot the same in perpetuity.