After Apple Claim, Samsung Galaxy Nexus Banned in U.S.

• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-06-30 09:31

  An American judge has banned the sale of Samsung's new Galaxy Nexus mobile phone in the United States after Apple claimed it copied some of the technology used in its iPhone.
  
  A judge had previously banned the sale of Samsung's tablet computer. Both bans will continue until the matter is considered in court.
  
  Apple and Samsung, the world's two largest consumer electronics corporations, are waging war through the courts of several countries, accusing each other of patent violations as they vie for supremacy in the mobile market.
  
  The decision on Friday by judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, comes days after she placed a pre-trial ban on sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1, a tablet computer that runs on Google's Android and competes with the iPad.
  
  Apple has waged an international patent war since 2010 to limit the growth of Google's Android system, the world's most-used mobile operating platform.
  
  Opponents of Apple say it is using patents too aggressively in a bid to stamp out competition.
  
  Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet accused Samsung of copying the look and feel of its products. Samsung was not immediately available for comment.
  
  As a condition of the injunction, Apple was ordered to post a bond of more than $95m (£60m), to cover damages sustained by Samsung should the injunction be later deemed a wrongful decision.

  
  
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jun/30/samsung-galaxy-nexus-banned-us?newsfeed=true
  
  well hurr durr
  it's a phone
  Fuck you Apple
  
  reminds the cat of a time when they sued a school in Canada for a similar logo
  http://gizmodo.com/5059881/apple-sues-school-for-using-the-same-fruit-in-a-logo
  
  and a German cafe
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8858333/Apple-takes-on-German-cafe-over-logo.html
  
  and an Austrailian supermarket
  http://www.theage.com.au/business/apple-bites-over-woolworths-logo-20091005-ghzr.html
• Chockeh wrote on 2012-06-30 09:41
  It just had to be the phone I have. xD
• Randomcheese wrote on 2012-06-30 10:12
  If they ban the Samsung Galaxy S3 I'm gonna be pissed = =.
• Spartaaaaa wrote on 2012-06-30 11:19
  I've always said that copyright laws are nothing more than monopoly grants...
• Rin wrote on 2012-06-30 16:40
  Market competition, yeah?
• Yoorah wrote on 2012-06-30 19:36
  Copyrights are fine, but Apple is playing dirty and it's a shame that a judge actually went along with it. Apple's design patent is particularly stupid; they argued in court that they invented the form factor of "a thin device with rounded corners" or something along those lines.
• Taycat wrote on 2012-06-30 20:22
  This is complete bullshit.
  
  Especially those logo's "looking like theirs" when they looked nothing like the apple logo :l
• Osayidan wrote on 2012-06-30 21:04
  this is why I hate apple. I wish steve jobs were still alive so he could be publicly executed by an angry mob of people who don't want the entire world to be ruled by apple mobile devices.
• Joker wrote on 2012-06-30 21:15

  Quote from Osayidan;898240:

  this is why I hate apple. I wish steve jobs were still alive so he could be publicly executed by an angry mob of people who don't want the entire world to be ruled by apple mobile devices.

  
  
  it's okay osay..... i sorta feel the same way other than the fact that it wont be apple... google will rule the world...
• Sumpfkraut wrote on 2012-06-30 21:28

  Quote from Rin;898110:

  Market competition, yeah?

  
  Patent abuse, actually. In a strictly free market economy, this would be 100% impossible.
  
  Businesses serve, are not served.
• rzetlin wrote on 2012-07-01 19:29
  So this ban is only in America.
  
  I can buy all the Samsung Galaxy Nexus in Canada and sell these phones to Americans at jacked up prices?
  
  PROFIT! :skip: