“Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it would fight Apple Inc.’s attempt to ban the sale of some of its smartphones in the U.S. with ‘all necessary measures,'” Evan Ramstad reports for The Wall Street Journal. “After winning a jury verdict for patent infringement against Samsung in a U.S. court last week, Apple on Monday asked the presiding judge for a permanent injunction against the eight phones that accounted for most Samsung’s U.S. smartphone revenue in the first six months of the year. Apple told Judge Lucy Koh that it reserves the right to pursue permanent injunctions banning the sale of all 28 devices that the jury on Friday found to violate Apple’s intellectual property. Judge Koh will rule on the request on Sept. 20.”
“Samsung responded in South Korea on Tuesday with a one sentence press statement. ‘We will take all necessary measures to ensure the availability of our products in the U.S. market,’ it said,” Ramstad reports. “Samsung spokesman said the company’s options included filing to stop the injunction, appealing if the judge grants it and modifying products. Samsung officials have already begun to talk to wireless carriers about removing or modifying infringing features to keep products on the market if the injunctions are granted, according to a person familiar with the matter.”
Ramstad reports, “Peter Toren, a patent attorney with Weisbrod Matteis & Copley PLLC in Washington, said Judge Koh is likely to grant Apple’s latest request, given that she already issued one preliminary injunction against the tablet-style computer Galaxy Tab 10.1 before the trial began.”
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MacDailyNews Take:
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… which will include stealing, ripping off, imitating, knocking off, being shameless and just being greedy old bastards.
Take you medicine like the thieving slavish copier you are who try’s playing the disingenuous sympathy card to no avail. We all know what you are trying to do playing the victim when you are the crimjal perpetrator. YOU FOOL NO ONE.
Agree
Sept. 20th, Judge Koh will grant Apple injunctions and treble damages. Apple will in turn whip out the other 12 patents it withdrew and sue Samsung again targeting their tablets and the Galaxy SIII. Apple will release the IPad Mini then sue Google for the Nexus 7 and Amazon software patent infringement. Google is toast and IOS 6 with IMaps will put the nail in the coffin.
Yes! And then on Sept 21st…
All in a day’s Apple work… Much as I enjoy Apple getting revenge in court I hope the result of this recent verdict will be enough to instill the “Big Chill” in competitors who don’t innovate and design sufficiently from Apple’s take. (That is after Google gets it’s share of lumps of Apple coal.) What a lot of people don’t realize is that innovation needs to be a bit of give and take in the inspiration dept. like American blues and rock ‘n roll was in the 50’s and 60’s to the British which then gave us back the Beatles, Rolling Stones, etc.. If other companies truly innovate then Apple is likewise to innovate further, maybe at a greater pace than otherwise than if they were simply copied. One great idea can lead to another great, though un-infringing, idea. And so on…
It is not about revenge but it is justice. Revenge has no place in the world and leads to more revenge. True justice leads to peace.
Well, since “all necessary measures” include “modifying products”, then they should get busy. They’re wasting time.
+1. While modifying the parts found to infringe seems logical I don’t think they have this in them. I wonder what they were thinking when they released this. Probably trying to buy time (through appeals) so they can sell remaining stock before they are banned from the selling phones in the USA.
I hope apple gets its way on sept 20, by then the iPhone 5 will be hopefully out, dishing more insult
To Samsung 😜😄
Apple is not trying to ‘get its way’. Apple seeks justice.
It’s mearly a flesh wound! Come back and I’ll taunt you a second time!
In the spirit of Steve Jobs re: Dell:
“Fuck Samsung!”
On the 20th: injunction
On the 21st: the new iPhone
On the 22nd (of October) the Galaxy S 4 (looks identical to the new iPhone but offered BOGOF
On the 25th (of October) Apple files suit over Galaxy S 4
Throughout 2013 Apple loses market share to Samsung’s G S 4, G S 5, and G S 6 while court battles await.
Justice?!
@ Jim – Fundamentally iPhone lovers are adverse to Android phones like the Samsung so I’m not sure why you leap to this conclusion. A huge screen and ham-fisted phone is not an attractive proposition. (The iPad Mini should change that dubious desirability.) This whole size thing is a short term “advantage” if you want to call it that. The whole point of a cell phone is in it’s portability and small portability size. And that’s a desirable design FEATURE, not a disadvantage. I hope the iPhone gets no bigger than a 4″ screen. I don’t want to cart around a surfboard in my pocket.
Well Samsung is after all only engaged in the national sport of Korea, theft.
Of that brief statement from Samsung, only ‘modifying products’ is the correct response. That’s all that Apple really wanted. Once they remove the infringing elements from their smartphones, Apple will leave them alone. The question, then, becomes, whether Samsung understood the lesson they were ‘taught.
We will take all necessary measures to ensure the availability of our products in the U.S. market.
Smuggling?
I wish Samsung the best of luck and hope they succeed.
nOt.
Getting tired of them being a ruthless, shameless copy-cat and now a relentless, shameless, sore-loser.
Yes Shamsuck is the epitome of the unrepentant loser and perp. This company has zero class and know they are guilty as hell as they attempt to redirect the conversation away from their criminal behavior. Still on my list of “no fly zone” companies I do business with, pretty much permanently.
Starting … copy …
http://www.cultofmac.com/187428/now-samsung-is-ripping-off-apples-os-x-dock-for-their-windows-8-machines/
Easy to modify SS products, go to home depot, purchase hammer, smash, not infringing anymore. Done.
Samsung could try thermonuclear war. 😉
They could also try innovating instead of stealing. It may not help your sales, but it could help you in the courts.
Dear MDN,
I hope that you paid the rights holders of the video of Monty Python that you posted on your site. Otherwise, you are no better that Samsung. You are re-broadcasting other persons intellectual property without their permission.
Theft is theft. It’s theft wether you do it, or if samsung does it.
Good point!
Its an excerpt from a YouTube video you boneheads, go Troll somewhere else.
Hear that Slamm and Pat, since we have seen pat around here Trolling, I would expect a responce of trivial meaning from the likes of that individual.
P.S. WTF ! That’s all you losers have.
Just because it’s on YouTube doesn’t make it legal. When every song in the universe was on Napster, and you could download them for free, did that make it legal as well?
I’m not being a troll. Just commenting on the hypocrisy of using someone else’s intellectual property as an example of the theft of intellectual property.
Talk to YouTube/Google about it. MDN merely added an HTML link to its location at their site. That’s how it works.
This is what I expected. Samsung Group will make this uncomfortable for Apple and indeed Thermonuclear can go both ways and I have every reason to believe that Apple took a calculated risk when they decided to file suit against Samsung as Apple knew that there would be repercussions either way.
No matter what side of the fence you sit on, this is not good for anyone as Samsung has such a huge infiltration in Apple products that they need to get this resolved sooner than later. Samsung can argue that the devices that Apple wants banned are stale dated and that moving forward they will agree to some sort of fee payable to Apple which could be parleyed in the prices that Samsung charges Apple for up to 60% of the components supplied to Apple. Win/Win
Business cycles are very fragile and the word out of Europe and the USA is not suggesting economic strength hence I would prefer seeing this get resolved in a manner whereby Apple does not get knocked down in a fight that they should win by having to roam the market for suppliers that tom this point have not been able to match Samsung quality and ability to mass produce to match Apple’s needs.
Replacing Samsung will be extremely difficult for Apple and Samsung replacing Apple as a client will be just as difficult.
Forget thermonuclear as that does not get anything resolved. India tells Pakistan that if they point their weapons at them then India will point their weapons towards Pakistan. Not too good!
Replacing Samsung will be extremely difficult for Apple
NO. It simply takes time to set up sourcing elsewhere. To hell with Samsung.
We will take all necessary measures to ensure…
WhineWhineWhine…
Cry babies 😥