“Samsung Electronics Co. failed to convince a German court to hear oral arguments before issuing an injunction in favor of Apple Inc. banning sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer in most European Union countries,” Karin Matussek reports for Bloomberg.
“Samsung on July 29 filed a so-called ‘protective brief’ as part of the dispute it has with Apple over the design of its device, the Dusseldorf Regional court said in an e-mailed statement today,” Matussek reports. “On Aug. 4, Apple filed a 44-page motion seeking the injunction. While judges took Samsung’s arguments into account, they ruled for Apple, the court said.”
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Matussek reports, “Apple is also seeking a court order to block sales in the U.S. until a trial can be held on patent-infringement claims there. In Australia, Samsung has agreed not to introduce a version of the Galaxy tablet computer until a lawsuit Apple filed there is resolved… Samsung, based in Suwon, South Korea, yesterday filed a motion to lift the EU ban and the court scheduled a hearing in the case for Aug. 25. Samsung said it will make further arguments in the case, the court said.”
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“And now, the time is here, and Samsung must face, the final curtain. Apple did, what they had to do, punish the copiers, they’ve not forgotten. And did it their waaaaaay.”
With apologies to Frank S. and Paul Anka
Would have been cooler if you did it with a Beatles’ song.
With a Little Help from My Friends
Please Mr. Patent Man
Steve Jobs Lonely Hearts Club Band
Dig an Apple
Everybody’s Trying to Be My iPad
Free as an Android
From Apple with Love
Hello, Again
Here Comes the Mac
Here, There and Everywhere
I Saw an “Apple Stoer” Standing There
I Want to Hold Your iPod touch
Rubber Grip
The White iPhone
Lisa in the Sky with Diamonds
Steve Jobs Forever
Taxman
The Ballad of Steve and Woz
The Fool on Mountain View
The Lame and Whinging Google
Ticket to a Stevenote
Till There Was iPhone
To Know OS X is to Appreciate NeXTSTEP
While My Windows Colleague Gently Weeps
You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away
Too corny?
Good job. And I am a much bigger Beatles fan than Paul “Having My Baby” Anka, to say the least. Once got an amazing tour of Abbey Road Studios too. Anyway Anka’s song just seemed more appropriate here. Appreciate your contribution too.
Samsung is going to need a LOT of luck if it hopes to overturn the injunction. The same judges hear the appeal as the ones who didn’t even give Samsung oral arguments after reviewing its brief.
May Samsung crash and burn!
Android and Google are crushing innovation. Why make something when the company with deep pockets can make a copy in a month and production the following week.
Sad, imaging if Joe six pack had produced the iPad. He would have been out of business by now. Google and it’s minions be rolling in cash of Joe’s brilliance.
Exactly.
“Samsung on July 29 filed a so-called ‘protective brief’…”
So they *did* provide evidence before the ruling by the German court. So much for their disingenuous whining.
Lets hope the execs at Samsung have taken to wearing protective briefs.
It all Depends.
Samsung is finally facing the music of justice. After getting away with years of immoral patent infringement and raking huge profits from it as well they are finally getting what they deserve.
I guess Samsung was just more dishonest than they were incompetent. Use it as an excuse to back out of a market you’re getting slaughtered in.
http://themacadvocate.com/2011/08/12/now-we-know-that-samsung-isnt-super-incompetent-just-kinda-deceitful/
Of course, whatever dolt wrote this article did not bother to reaserch EU rules and laws regarding IP and CDs. Injunctions like this don’t ever require the defendant even be notified, much less be given a hearing, when the injunction request is filed. It is, as a matter of course, basically automatically done.