“When the CEOs of Apple and Samsung, accompanied by several in-house lawyers, meet for their (court-requested) settlement negotiations on or before February 19, there will probably be flexibility on both sides relating to the billions of dollars in license fees that may change hands, but if Samsung wants a deal, it will have to accept, as HTC did before it, an anti-cloning provision that would allow Apple to still bring lawsuits if Samsung’s products resembled Apple’s offerings too closely in ways that could actually be avoided by means of designarounds,” Florian Müller reports for FOSS Patents.
“Yes, this may very well be a dealbreaker and require these parties to square off at the trial in their second California litigation, which is scheduled to begin on March 31,” Müller reports. “But no matter how much Samsung may hate the notion of an anti-cloning provision (it’s definitely at odds with the strategy that enabled Samsung to become the global market leader in smartphones), it’s s safe assumption that a deal will only come into being if Samsung accepts this. In a sworn declaration of January 16, 2014, Apple’s BJ Watrous, Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, told the United States District Court for the Northern District of California that Apple’s ‘discussions with Samsung have consistently included limits to both the scope of any license and a prohibition against cloning Apple products.'”
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What the hell could Samesung make without the ability to clone Apple products? It would effectively mean shutting down their business.
-GOOD THINKING !
Well, don’t forget refrigerators and washing machines and TVs.
Oh hey doncha know according to delusional Fragmendroid Apple copies Samsung! It is AMAZING the things people talk themselves into if they want to believe it fervently enough. True facts and real history need not apply.
Indeed buccaneer! But the human ability of believing almost anything to be absolutely ‘true’, then acting on such assumptions, is the core of human failure throughout history. It’s nothing new in this situation. *sigh* I could tell you tales about my mother… But I won’t. 😉
Well well. Look who Samsung is cloning now:
New Samsung mobile user interface leaks, Galaxy S5 features rumored
Samsung will be using a tile-based user interface design in future devices, according to new leaked screenshots.
More lawsuits in Samsung’s future?
Still, hats of to HTC for playing nice with Apple. Steve Jobs always welcomed fair and original competition. It keeps with Apple’s mantra of making lives of people better. We already see the scurge of Google with Android and Samsung. They are a diseased infestation into a market enlightened by Apple.
Samsung is a IP thieving, product copying, underhanded, conniving, low-life of an immoral company. Boycott all Samsung consumer products and tell your friends to do the same.
BOYCOTT SAMDUNGIE …..
BAN THEM.
‘We are willing to buy a cloning-allowed clause. Please suggest who we should pay and the recommended minimum bribe amount.’