“Apple Inc. is trying to force Samsung Electronics Co.’s mobile devices off U.S. store shelves a week after dodging an iPhone 4 ban by a rare White House veto,” Susan Decker and Jungah Lee report for Bloomberg.
“The company will ask a U.S. appeals court tomorrow to block sales of Samsung models a California jury found violated patents for the iPhone’s look and features,” Decker and Lee report. “Later, a U.S. trade agency is expected to say if it will halt some Samsung imports based on other Apple patent-infringement claims.”
Decker and Lee report, “For Cupertino, California-based Apple, making Samsung change or stop selling some smartphones and tablet computers is more important than money. The $1 billion verdict it won at trial last year equals less than two weeks’ worth of iPhone sales and one-seventh of Samsung’s second-quarter profit. ‘Sometimes, the money’s not enough,’ said Ray Van Dyke, a technology-patent lawyer with the Van Dyke Firm in Washington. ‘Between Apple and Samsung, it’s about who’s going to be the top dog. You want to shut them down. This is the club. You can beat them into submission with a club and maintain your top dog status.'”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
And Apple should get it.
The obvious blatant Slavish Copying of Apple has got to stop.
This is not about being top dog. It’s about Grampa walking into Costco and seeing an ‘iPad’ that’s $249 made by Samsung and thinking, “I’ll get Betsie an iPad” — only it’s not an iPad but he won’t ever know because he got a product that frustrates him and doesn’t work right and doesn’t have the apps the grandkids are talking about.
That’s what Apple is mad about. And they should be. And they should fight Samsung and Google tooth and nail over the look of the devices (confusing to this day) and the manner in which people interact with them.
We’ll see who gets whose products banned from these shores Sammy Boy. Swing that club HARD Tim!
The sales ban comes too late. Only 1% of Crapsungs Products will be baned, this is nothing.
It will set precedent.
It will probably be as useful as visualizing world peace, but it would be a nice payback.
5 months left in 2013 and it is ALREADY proving to be as kewl a year for Apple as I expected. It’s going to be a wild ride through December, and lots of retributional FUN! 😀
Even with these patents can not protect Apple from those copy-caters. The ITC got to have some solutions to protect innovators.
I agree that Apple has the right to apply for a sales ban, but wonder if it’s the wisest course of action ?
Samsung will inevitably get round it by releasing further models which circumvent the ban and Apple will be pilloried for appearing to be a bully. The net result is that Samsung will continue as they always do, while Apple will get criticised.
I think that Apple’s strategy should be to defend patents ( because otherwise they become pointless ), but not to bother with sales bans in a fast moving market as those bans happen so late that they can be largely inconsequential.
Apple appear to be following a much better strategy for the future. Future top end iPhones should be made in such a way that copying is too challenging. The housing material and style are obvious candidates, but IOS 7 is a huge step in that direction because it changes the look of how the phone operates. When you look at a smartphone, nearly everything you see is the screen, the case is only a small percentage of the frontal area. If the appearance of the screen is significantly different from before, then Android phones will no longer look like iPhones – even to a casual observer.
With regard to mid-range phones, a cheaper iPhone could pull the rug out from beneath Samsung and it would also run IOS 7, so would obviously be recognised as an iPhone. Other mid-range Androids would continue to copy the look of older IOS screens.
Samsung may be able to move rapidly on the hardware front, but Apple can move very much more rapidly on the software front and that’s the part which really makes a difference on a smartphone, especially as any change that Apple makes to IOS will be automatically installed on nearly all iPhones that are less than 3-4 years old.
I hope you know where iOS notification center and iOS7 features are coming from.
apple has no idea about this. if Samsung would be ban, how about banning apple all over the world? it will damage much more than just US. I think that apple is stupid.