“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.
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.
Frikin iEnough already!
Isn’t ALL that stuff part of android and therefore OPEN?
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.
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.
Will Judge Koh be presiding over the Korean case as well? Might as well make out like a bandit while she can.
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.
Hey MDN… Shouldn’t Apple be suing google instead of Samsung? It’s the same thing you fool!
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.
No I think you have it wrong. Apple is the patent holder using Samsung hype product whose operation violates apples patent.
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.
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.
apple might as well write the 150k check now…
150k Korean Won (about $130)? Is it worth that much?
Not the same thing you stupidiot.
“Stupidiot”… I like that. Gonna have to ‘borrow’ that from time to time!
Will the the Korean court appoint judge Billy Joe Yeeha-Cowboy or Judge Kim Il Koh the 2nd?
This is apple fan site! Whatever against us will be dealt with, even if you are right! Dumb…..
Geez….Samsung is like a frikken hemmorroid. What a PITA!
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?
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).
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?
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
Stop shouting, and turn off caps lock. You come across as a complete dick.
Efficient explanation for why legalese is commonly in all caps: It tells us the true character of the chaps doing the writing!
Samdung won’t stop because of the ridiculous Asian custom of saving face. And Asians are the hypocrites of the world.
Sounds like you havr the “ridiculous” American custom of being both arrogant and ignorant.
I rarely agree with MDN but your take made me laugh this morning
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.
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.
I’m lost. What are they suing over? Which patent? It’s Google’s OS, their patents, etc.
Someone help clear this up, thanks!