“A U.S. trade panel on Friday ruled that South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd infringes on portions of two Apple Inc patents on digital mobile devices, a decision likely to inflame passions in the long-running dispute,” Reuters reports.
“The U.S. International Trade Commission issued a limited exclusion order and a cease-and-desist order prohibiting Samsung from importing, selling and distributing devices in the United States that infringe certain claims on the patents,” Reuters reports. “All exclusion orders are sent to President Barack Obama, who has 60 days to review them. If he does not veto the order, it will go into effect.”
Reuters reports, “Letting the ban on Samsung devices stand after having so recently intervened in the Apple case could spur allegations the administration is showing favoritism toward California’s Apple.”
MacDailyNews Take: … from idiots who do not understand the difference between SEPs and design patents. There, Reuters, fixed that for ya.
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: More, please!
About freakin’ time.
Maybe, but also consider that just because something is “standards essential” doesn’t mean one has a right to use it without license… And there is also no blanket requirement to offer to license.
On a patent that has been submitted to a Standard Setting agency, there is INDEED a RIGHT to use it without license it until a FAIR, REASONABLE AND NON-DISCRIMINATORY rate is set to license it, and, yes there IS INDEED, a requirement in the Standard Setting Agency agreement that the owner of the patent MUST offer everyone who wishes to take a license for the Standard Essential Patents license a FRAND offer. So, Replier, you are zero for two.
OK. Now count your apples. Well, in 61 days I guess.
“Letting the ban on Samsung devices stand after having so recently intervened in the Apple case could spur allegations the administration is showing favoritism toward California’s Apple.”
No, it would show Obama has a brain and understands the difference between SEP’s and design patents.
Headlines will be damaging in the meantime …. Some good honest people will not buy such a product – OR – Let me say. It another way …..
The Ban will not help Sam-Shameless-Dung Sales ……
Hey, AAPL is up .83 after hours!
Reuters was, with the emphasis on was, the premier British financial reporting newspaper that disseminated financial news deemed indispensable by investment banks, trading institutions, and general news reporting. However, in recent years it has been overtaken by Bloomberg News and Bloomberg terminals and it is a shadow of the powerhouse in financial reporting it once was. It has had to be merged with and bought over by Thomson Financial in order to bolster its internal finances to compete in an increasingly digital world that disseminates information over terminals that are linked to central servers, rather than the old way of providing the news through broadsheets.
Reuters used to employ absolute top notch financial reporters that fed news into an international clearinghouse and ranked with AP (Associated Press), AFP (Agence France Presse), Dow Jones and other international news organisations but their standards have fallen off their historic highs. Reporters that cannot distinguish between design patents and standards essential patents ought to be hauled to the Hudson River or River Thames (whichever place the story originated from) and dunked in 20 feet of waste water.
Holy shit. How can you report on this if you don’t understand the difference between FRAND patents and design patents?
Please take the time to correct the shithead, paid (or stupid) astroturfers that are spreading lies in the comments of EVERYONE of these stories.
Donny, you’re out of your fscking depth!
Boycott Samsung.
Apple’s victory meaning the iPhones needs to be released massive amounts of iPhones in the US and global for consumers.
Reuters reports, “Letting the ban on Samsung devices stand after having so recently intervened in the Apple case could spur allegations the administration is showing favoritism toward California’s Apple.”
It will only spur allegations among the stupid.
Yea -and a Korean judge did not show favoritism to Samsung.
It’s good that Apple asked for a jury instead of letting Lucy decide the case.
She essentially did as she drastically cut down the award and then recommended against a ban. It would be hard to find a more biased and crooked judge.
Did ya look in west Texas, Chicago, or Manhattan?
I wonder how the samscum fans will defend this
it’s not about time. look. it is only result of banning old products. new models are not affected. as a matter of fact, this is one of many trails Samsung vs. apple around the world. but unfortunately apple will still lose anyway. you know why? because samsung has way more technology patents than apple. plus, I heard that Samsung will appeal this result soon.
I feel compelled to open an account with Yahoo to correct every one of those idiots posting comments. Come on. These guys are for real? The post are complete nonsense. Do they truly believe what they are posting?
I have a gut feeling that if U.S. troops (our men, women, brothers, sisters, significant others, fathers, mothers…etc) pull out from DMZ and just maintain a skeleton troop there, perhaps, Samsung will tone down its criminal behavior significantly.
If Samsung can not cease to copy from others due to its inherent fault corporate culture, I suggest Samsung to copy Microsoft’s excellent products such as Surface RT, Surface Pro, Zune, Kin, Windows 3.1. DOS 6.3…etc
Finally!
Some good news for Apple in a long time.
Samsung has become labeled in America as the copycat and it has become pop culture.
This is what matters to me most of all.
Judges and juries need to learn the difference between SEPs and proprietary patents. The former make a smartphone a smartphone. The latter make a smartphone an iPhone.
Very good. Justice is served.