“The U.S. International Trade Commission yesterday sought more information before deciding whether some Samsung Electronics Co. devices infringe Apple Inc. patents and should be barred from entering the U.S.,” Susan Decker reports for Bloomberg News. “The Washington-based panel, in reviewing Apple’s case against Samsung, asked for additional arguments on three of the four patents that Judge Thomas Pender said were infringed, and comments on how an import ban would affect the public.”
MacDailyNews Take: It’d help the ignorati to purchase innovative, quality products instead of cheap, plastic knockoffs.
“Initiated in July 2011, the case is one of dozens of patent battles between the world’s two biggest makers of smartphones. Apple claims Samsung copies the look and ease-of-use features that distinguish its iPhone,” Decker reports. “Samsung has retaliated by alleging its rival uses fundamental data-transmission technology it controls without permission.”
MacDailyNews Take: In other words, Samsung steals from Apple and then commits serial FRAND abuse on a global scale in a weak attempt to try to cover up their crimes.
Decker reports, “Among the products that Cupertino, California-based Apple is seeking to block from the U.S. market are Samsung’s Nexus 4G, Replenish and Intercept mobile phones, and older models of its Galaxy Tab computer… The ITC, which can block imported products from the U.S., is scheduled to make a final decision in the Apple case against Samsung on Aug. 1.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Take your time, U.S. ITC. As if enough damage hasn’t already been done. Give the slavish copiers at least two more months to peddle their stolen products. Make crime pay. Why bother having patents at all when justice simply doesn’t exist due to perpetual delay?
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