“Google made no public comment Friday after Judge Lucy Koh granted Apple a preliminary injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Nexus — a touchscreen cellphone whose hardware and software were jointly developed by Google and Samsung engineers,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt writes for Fortune.
“It was the second ban on an Android-based Samsung device in a week, and the first to strike directly at a Google-branded product,” P.E.D. writes. “It came eight months after the Galaxy Nexus was unveiled at Google and Samsung’s ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ event in Hong Kong and three days after Google gave 6,000 copies of the phone to attendees at its ‘Jelly Bean’ developers conference in San Francisco.”
P.E.D. writes., “Could Jobs actually win the war he’s waging from the grave? Given how slowly the wheels of justice grind, the legal victories granted Apple so far have been against devices whose shelf life had nearly expired. But armed with this week’s decisions, Apple may be tempted to request preliminary injunctions against newer products, such as Samsung’s hot-selling Galaxy S III smartphone or the Nexus 7 tablet that Google unveiled this week.”
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