Apple contacts US carriers, resellers to enforce Samsung product ban

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  • Reply 21 of 52
    hellacoolhellacool Posts: 759member

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    Originally Posted by cheviot View Post


    Not necessary. The court order already applies to Samsung, it's partners and those acting in concert with them. This includes the retailers. Retailers that don't comply will be reported to the presiding judge, who decides whether to cite them for contempt or not.


     



     


    Right, so Apple sending out this notice just makes them look foolish.  A - Hey judge, since you are not doing your job in a manner we see fit we will do it for you B - Hey retailers, since you are not doing your jobs in a manner we see fit we will threaten you. 

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  • Reply 22 of 52
    dasanman69dasanman69 Posts: 13,002member
    cheviot wrote: »
    Not necessary. The court order already applies to Samsung, it's partners and those acting in concert with them. This includes the retailers. Retailers that don't comply will be reported to the presiding judge, who decides whether to cite them for contempt or not.

    Getting an injunction is one mountain climbed, getting it enforced is another. Local law enforcement have bigger fish to fry than a retailer selling devices.
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  • Reply 23 of 52
    65c81665c816 Posts: 136member

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    Originally Posted by Hellacool View Post


     


    Right, so Apple sending out this notice just makes them look foolish.  A - Hey judge, since you are not doing your job in a manner we see fit we will do it for you B - Hey retailers, since you are not doing your jobs in a manner we see fit we will threaten you. 



    I didn't realize when a judge issues an injunction, he is responsible for telling all the retailers about it too.

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  • Reply 24 of 52
    tcaseytcasey Posts: 199member


    if its about karma then samsung got a lot coming to them and google...

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  • Reply 25 of 52
    mac.worldmac.world Posts: 340member
    None pf this will matter once congress and the president sign into law the "no banning for software patent" legislation.
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  • Reply 26 of 52
    jragostajragosta Posts: 10,473member
    cheviot wrote: »
    Not necessary. The court order already applies to Samsung, it's partners and those acting in concert with them. This includes the retailers. Retailers that don't comply will be reported to the presiding judge, who decides whether to cite them for contempt or not.

    That is not correct.

    The retailers were not party to the court case and therefore the court case is not binding on them without further action. A decision is only binding on parties to the case. The fact that partners and others are mentioned in the case doesn't mean that they can be found in contempt.

    There are a number of options:

    1. Apple could let the retailers sell the product and then drag Samsung into court for contempt and/or for any damaged caused by the retailers selling the product. Their argument would be that Samsung was obligated to issue an immediate recall when the order was handed down.

    2. Apple can simply ask the retailers to abide by the decision voluntarily - which is what Apple did.

    3. Apple could drag the retailer into court to notify the retailer legally that they are covered by the decision.

    Apple chose the least intrusive and heavy handed of the three options.
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  • Reply 27 of 52
    hellacoolhellacool Posts: 759member

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    Originally Posted by 65C816 View Post


    I didn't realize when a judge issues an injunction, he is responsible for telling all the retailers about it too.





    He is the authority that enforces it.  If retailers are not complying, the judge is informed and he enforces it through law enforcement.  Pretty simple.

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  • Reply 28 of 52
    fredaroonyfredaroony Posts: 619member

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    Originally Posted by Dickprinter View Post


    I hope Apple know what they're doing and this, or some other patent they may possibly infringe upon, doesn't blow up in their face. As a shareholder, that's my biggest fear. I'm all for protecting IP but no one should be an a-hole about it. It's all about the 'karma/burning bridges' thing.



    Indeed, I didn't realise Apple were the courts and the enforcement now too!

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  • Reply 29 of 52

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    Originally Posted by Negafox View Post


    ...and an iPhone 3GS for my four-year-old daughter.



     Society is going down the tubes.

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  • Reply 30 of 52
    fredaroonyfredaroony Posts: 619member

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    Originally Posted by Negafox View Post


    What Apple hater? I own a white 16 GB WiFi iPad 3, 17" MacBook Pro, 2 x iPhone 4S' for my wife and I, and an iPhone 3GS for my four-year-old daughter. I do not even own any Android products.


     


    I would hardly call anything Apple has done thus far a "thermonuclear war" against Android. It is more eye-rolling at best.



    Don't worry, he thinks everyone that doesn't agree with him is a Apple hater and doesn't realise there is actually a world outside of his Appledome. It's even scarier to note that some people can like Apple while also liking other brands at the same time!

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  • Reply 31 of 52
    fredaroonyfredaroony Posts: 619member

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    Originally Posted by fartheststar View Post


     Society is going down the tubes.



    lol yes, I'm sure she is going to grow as a normal non-materialistic girl.

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  • Reply 32 of 52
    tallest skiltallest skil Posts: 43,388member
     Society is going down the tubes.

    As not even an old fart, I agree with you, but not necessarily entirely because of that. :lol:
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  • Reply 33 of 52
    negafoxnegafox Posts: 480member

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    Originally Posted by fartheststar View Post


     Society is going down the tubes.



    There is no phone plan tied to the 3GS phone and the casing is heavily cracked. I tossed some toddler educational apps and storybooks onto it. I gave it to her after I upgraded to an iPhone 4S rather than just recycling the phone. Any questions?

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  • Reply 34 of 52
    hill60hill60 Posts: 6,992member

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    Either way Apple looks like a giant douche, bully.



    Apple looks like a WINNER, a winner who is stopping a convicted price fixer of selling PIRATE copies of their stuff.


     


    Samsung is being proven guilty left, right and centre.


     


    Everyone knows what they did, apart from those poor sheep who drink the Google Koolaid and are looking at the world through the Google goggle's reality distortion field.


     


    Build a bridge, pal, get over it.

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  • Reply 35 of 52
    hill60hill60 Posts: 6,992member

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    Originally Posted by Mac.World View Post



    None pf this will matter once congress and the president sign into law the "no banning for software patent" legislation.


     


    You left out "standards essential".


     


    Is that the Google koolaid talking?

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  • Reply 36 of 52
    markbyrnmarkbyrn Posts: 662member


    This sounds like another poorly executed legal strategy from the offices of Apple's General Counsel - Mr Bruce Sewell.   

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  • Reply 37 of 52
    gatorguygatorguy Posts: 24,772member


    ...and now the latest in the Galaxy Nexus injunction saga. It looks like the appeals court will continue to stay any injunction on it, perhaps into August at least. Sales will be allowed to continue for the time-being.


    http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/images/stories/opinions-orders/2012-1507.7-13-12.2.pdf

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  • Reply 38 of 52
    gazoobeegazoobee Posts: 3,754member

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    Originally Posted by Hellacool View Post


    But Apple is not a law enforcing entity.  They have no authority.  The best they can do is contact local authorities and have them handle it.  If any of these providers tell's Apple to pound sand, there is Zero Apple can do about it.  What, breach contract and pull Apple products?  Go to other carriers?  Right, Apple needs the carriers more than the carriers need Apple.  Here Jimmy, a nice new iPhone but it has no network.

     



     


    This is not true at all.  You don't have to be a part of law enforcement to enforce the law, and even if you did, this is not that.  This is Apple reminding the carriers and distributors (as is the right of literally anyone on earth) that they might be breaking the law and that they probably shouldn't do that.  


     


    Anyone can do this.  Anyone has the right to do this.  In fact, the original concept of democracy would imply that everyone has an obligation to this.  The fact that people are selfish a-holes lately and mostly just think of themselves, and that strangers generally will get upset at you "judging" them if you point out the law to them is all irrelevant.  


     


    Laws have existed since pre-civilised times, whereas the "police" were only really invented about a hundred years ago.  

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  • Reply 39 of 52
    galbigalbi Posts: 968member


    Apple, doing what it does best: using the legal system to do business.


     


    If you cant compete, litigate!

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  • Reply 40 of 52
    tallest skiltallest skil Posts: 43,388member
    galbi wrote: »
    Apple, doing what it does best: using the legal system to do business.

    If you cant compete, litigate!

    Hey, there it is! :lol:

    This needs to be a bannable statement.

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