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| Thread ID: 125968 | 2012-07-30 09:38:00 | Let War Begin - Apple V Samsung trial begins. | Iantech (16386) | PC World Chat |
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| 1291635 | 2012-07-30 09:38:00 | in.reuters.com Jury selection is scheduled to begin on Monday morning in a high stakes patent battle between Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the culmination of over a year of pretrial jousting with billions of dollars in the balance. Apple and Samsung, the world's largest consumer electronics corporations, are waging legal war around the world, accusing each other of patent violations as they vie for supremacy in a fast-growing market for mobile devices. The fight began last year when Apple sued Samsung in a San Jose, California federal court, accusing the South Korean company of slavishly copying the iPhone and iPad. Samsung countersued. The stakes are high, with Samsung facing potential U.S. sales bans of its Galaxy smartphones and tablet computers, and Apple in a pivotal test of its worldwide patent litigation strategy. Apple will try to use Samsung documents to show its rival knowingly violated the iPhone maker's intellectual property rights, while Samsung argues Apple is trying to stifle competition to maintain "exorbitant" profit, according to court filings. A 10-member jury will hear evidence over at least four weeks, and it must reach a unanimous decision for Apple or Samsung to prevail on any of their claims. That the jurors will hail from Silicon Valley, where Apple is an icon and major employer, will be something for Samsung to consider during the jury selection, said James Dobson, a jury consultant with Empirical Creative. "Although certainly if I were Samsung I would be concerned about what prospective jurors think about Apple, given that it's a huge employer there," Dobson said, "by and large jurors want to do right thing and decide the case on the merits." It has been tough going so far for Samsung in the case. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh halted U.S. sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1, giving Apple a significant early win. This was followed by a pretrial ban on the Galaxy Nexus phone. Samsung has appealed both orders. The trial is expected to last at least four weeks. The case in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, is Apple Inc v. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd et al, No. 11-1846. My Question: Why is Samsung even allowing this case to be judged on American soil? Surely it must know the Jury being American (and probably paid out by Apple) are going to vote for their own US Company. Personally, I wish Samsung well and hope they beat the crap out of Apple - but cant see it happening. |
Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1291636 | 2012-07-30 09:42:00 | If Samsung wins it would be a victory for common sense IMO. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1291637 | 2012-07-30 09:48:00 | Dong... dong... bring out your dead (the us patent office) :D | KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1291638 | 2012-07-30 09:56:00 | Dong... dong... bring out your dead (the us patent office) :D www.youtube.com :D "I'm not dead yet" is also surprisingly fitting :p |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1291639 | 2012-07-30 11:24:00 | Samsung claims that Apple ripped of (www.smh.com.au) Sony's design, and Now Apple have been forced to hand over designs (allthingsd.com) (slideshow) and sketches of their prototypes. This was after Apple got a reprieve (www.appleinsider.com ad_uk_notice.html) from displaying on UK/EU sites/publications that Samsung did not copy their iPad design. However Google warned Samsung about their Galaxy tablets being similar... (allthingsd.com) Hard to know if Samsung is truly innovative and iconic compared to Apple when with Steve Jobs. No one name, leader, can be easily identified or even known within Samsung Electronics, well in the US anyway. |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1291640 | 2012-07-30 12:02:00 | Samsung claims that Apple ripped of (www.smh.com.au) Sony's design, and Now Apple have been forced to hand over designs (allthingsd.com) (slideshow) and sketches of their prototypes. This was after Apple got a reprieve (www.appleinsider.com ad_uk_notice.html) from displaying on UK/EU sites/publications that Samsung did not copy their iPad design. However Google warned Samsung about their Galaxy tablets being similar... (allthingsd.com) Hard to know if Samsung is truly innovative and iconic compared to Apple when with Steve Jobs. No one name, leader, can be easily identified or even known within Samsung Electronics, well in the US anyway.The slides do tell you there is more than one wy to skin a cat, as the other manufactors have shown. |
plod (107) | ||
| 1291641 | 2012-07-30 12:17:00 | True, skinning from all sorts of angles of design. Now it's emerged one of Apple's iPhone main designers recently left, and is wanted by Samsung as a key witness, but his lawyer says he is sick re-cooperating (or relaxing) in Hawaii. | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1291642 | 2012-07-30 23:49:00 | So basically if Apple actually win.... does that mean Ford can sue the hell out of every car manufacturer? The Bell estate can claim all of apple iphone profits? | rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 1291643 | 2012-07-31 00:49:00 | So basically if Apple actually win.... does that mean Ford can sue the hell out of every car manufacturer? The Bell estate can claim all of apple iphone profits? On that note, who invented the wheel? :confused: |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1291644 | 2012-07-31 01:22:00 | So basically if Apple actually win.... does that mean Ford can sue the hell out of every car manufacturer? Only with car makes who have the steering wheel on the left which is about 80% of them.. |
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