“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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