“Unless the White House intervenes, five older Apple devices — including a version of the iPhone 4 that was one of the company’s biggest money makers last quarter — will be seized at the U.S. border starting Monday,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“The import ban stems from a June 4 ruling by the U.S. International Trade Commission that has everybody from Microsoft and Intel to a bipartisan group of U.S. senators up in arms,” P.E.D. reports. “Even Verizon — whose iPhones and iPads were not affected — came out against it in the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal.”
P.E.D. reports, “The ironies are almost too many to list — starting with a Korean manufacturer successfully preventing a U.S. company from bringing its products into its own country on the strength of an SEP patent when a U.S. district judge refused to ban Samsung devices that were found by a jury to have violated numerous Apple non-SEP patents. If the White House is serious about its calls for patent reform, this might be a perfect opportunity to show it.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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We’ll see if he cares as much about his top successful Tech company as he cares for a failing car company.
It has been overturned.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/trade-representative-overturns-ban-sales-193108846.html
Now let’s have everyone apologize… (you know who you are)
“I’m sorry for my hysterical ravings over the last few days, based on my fantasy of what might happen.”
Baning on SEP is idiotic.
How ever, the reason the ban even came up was because Apple did not license the SEPs in question. And that because they could not come to terms on price. Samsung of course wanted a ridiculous amount per device, any of you that have read the rulings knows this. Samsung essentially wanted 64000 times more than Apple was willing to pay then thus the patents went unlicensed. So I can understand why the ban was placed. Apple was using unlicensed patents. How ever, Samsung is really asking for a ridiculous amount, like 2,4% or something of each device sold. You can’t fit many patents in there before you take all the profits of a device.