“During the last 24 hours there have been various filings with the Federal Circuit in the cases relating to Apple’s preliminary injunctions against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the Galaxy Nexus smartphone,” Florian Mueller reports for FOSS Patents. “I just wanted to highlight the most interesting development: a couple of Samsung filings say that Apple’s enforcement activities include letters to ‘to many carriers and retail companies that currently sell’ the banned products, telling them that ‘[a]t a minimum’ they are required to ‘immediately remov[e] for sale the [banned product] from all physical and online venues under [their] direction or control.'”
Mueller reports, “Samsung filed letters from the San Francisco-based law firm of Taylor & Company sent on Apple’s behalf to downstream customers. Apparently, letters relating to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 went out on June 28, and letters concerning the Galaxy Nexus were sent on July 3 (before the injunction was stayed).”
“Samsung claims that ‘Apple’s menacing letters greatly overreach, incorrectly claiming that third-party retailers are subject to the prohibitions of the preliminary injunction, which they clearly are not,’ in Samsung’s opinion, ‘they are permitted to sell their existing inventory, even without a stay,'” Mueller reports. “However, both preliminary injunctions clearly relate not only to Samsung’s employees, agents etc. (including its subsidiaries and ‘partners’) but also to ‘those acting in concert with any of them.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Aw, poor slavish copier. Good job, Apple legal!
What wrong now Slamdung?
Forgot how to copy… for sure a letter is far easier to forge?
The bully Apple is losing ground. The iPhone and iPad party is coming to an end. Great news for everything.not.Apple!
Bully?
If someone broke into your lab and was stealing your inventions would you hold the door open for the crooks?
Samsung, Google et al. should invent their own stuff doncha think?
Well said! Not sure what Joel is thinking…
Maybe he works for Samsung?
Are you trolling serious or fan facetious? Cuz as everybody knows Apple is gaining ground, more all the time. Bad news for everyone else.not.Apple.
Does your mommy know your using her computer to post drivel on this site, and while your at it stop sniffing the glue, it has screwed your head on backwards and left you talking out of your anus.
And Samsung is getting paid money from Apple as a result of their latest utility patent win against Apple over a 3G patent. Look it up
Anonymous coward ‘Joel’: You make a very poor ZuneTang® surrogate. Try harder next time.
Why does Apple have to ensure the ban is being properly handled? Does the family of a murder victim need to check to make sure the offender is put in jail after the verdict has passed? This system is so fucked up.
Why yes they do, or at least the victim’s family has to attend hearings to keep the murderer in jail over the long haul.
Of course no one has been murdered here so its nowhere near the same situation.
Do you think Samsung is going to contact them or they are going to read the news and act upon the injunction without such a notification.
What devices are they referring too?
Apple once again overstepping their authority. Next thing they’ll do is pose as cops and go store to store confiscating devices!!!
Oh the burning irony. Good point.
The good news for Apple is, that time is there greatest asset.
Time is running out for all the copy cats out there, because Apple had to learn the hard way and is finally putting copyright protection on all there new technology. So Time will tell how much original technology Google, Samsung, and Android can come up with left to their own devices.
Hey Samsung: It’s not comfortable watching yourself get suitably screwed, is it? And there’s more to come… 😆