UK judge rules Apple must advertise Samsung did not copy the iPad

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  • Reply 21 of 315

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by malax View Post


    Can you imagine how SJ would have reacted to this?


     


    If I were Apple I would include in the "statement" a picture of the two devices side by side along with the date they were introduced.  "According to the [insert name of the court here] the Samsung device shown here that came out a year after the iPad is not a copy of the iPad.  They've instructed us to tell you that.  Have a nice day."





    Agreed, along with an additional statement to the effect of "However, other courts in the United States, Australia and other countries have ruled that the Samsung device was an improper copy."

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  • Reply 22 of 315
    gazoobeegazoobee Posts: 3,754member

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    Originally Posted by asdasd View Post


    Apparently they cant appeal - Apple should move all its infrastructure in the UK to Ireland. Not that it has much. 



     


    If I was them, I would move their retail operations also.  This just shows that the country has a terribly biased and non-functional legal system.  Why do business at all with a country like that?

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  • Reply 23 of 315
    jfc1138jfc1138 Posts: 3,090member

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    Originally Posted by JerrySwitched26 View Post


    How  humiliating for Apple.


     


    And so much for those who claimed that Apple's legal losses are not damaging its image with consumers.  Even were that true in the past, this would put an absolute end to any notion that consumers are not aware of apple's legal tactics.



    Yeah because a single British judge (wearing a whig no doubt) made a ruling?


     


    Sure, we can go with that.


     


    Or not.

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  • Reply 24 of 315
    gatorguygatorguy Posts: 24,769member


    Perhaps evidence that the courts are realizing they're being played as pawns in a market competition? Certainly can't be dismissed as a possibility.

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  • Reply 25 of 315
    sierrajeffsierrajeff Posts: 366member

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by JerrySwitched26 View Post


    How  humiliating for Apple.


     


    And so much for those who claimed that Apple's legal losses are not damaging its image with consumers.  Even were that true in the past, this would put an absolute end to any notion that consumers are not aware of apple's legal tactics.



     


    Humiliating?  To have won patent suits in multiple countries, and then have one judge in the UK issue this bizarre decision?  (And I say that as an attorney in Silicon Valley, in an office full of IP lawyers.)


     


    And please cite evidence of how "Apple's legal losses are [] damaging its image with consumers."  Would it be the record sales, the cannibalization of PC sales, the ever-rising stock price... ?

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  • Reply 26 of 315
    neo42neo42 Posts: 287member


    Made me LOL.

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  • Reply 27 of 315
    gatorguygatorguy Posts: 24,769member

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    Originally Posted by Sierrajeff View Post




    Agreed, along with an additional statement to the effect of "However, other courts in the United States, Australia and other countries have ruled that the Samsung device was an improper copy."



    I don't believe any US or Australian court has AFAIK. Have any of the other cases progressed past the "likely valid and infringed" stage yet? I believe thus far they've only been preliminary rulings on injunction requests.

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  • Reply 28 of 315
    Spot on, let's hope they take your advice - he can't dictate that they do it with good grace! Irony is the perfect riposte.
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  • Reply 29 of 315


    Fat chance in hell Apple will do this. They'd remove all business from the UK before doing something that would negatively affect their other patent cases.

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  • Reply 30 of 315
    anantksundaramanantksundaram Posts: 20,419member

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    Originally Posted by asdasd View Post


    Apparently they cant appeal - Apple should move all its infrastructure in the UK to Ireland. Not that it has much. 



     


    Quote:

    Originally Posted by patpatpat View Post


    According to the article "Apple does not have the ability to appeal the ruling"



    I guess I must be reading the AI article incorrectly when it says, last sentence, para 4: "Apple does have the ability to appeal the judge's decision."

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  • Reply 31 of 315
    mstonemstone Posts: 11,510member

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    Originally Posted by AppleInsider View Post




    While Apple has had a hard time fighting Samsung in court in the U.K., it has had success against the Galaxy Tab in other countries. For example, last month U.S. District Court Judge Lucky Koh found that Samsung infringed on Apple's design patents, and issued a temporary injunction prohibiting sales of the device.

     


    Apple has also successfully argued for temporary injunctions in Australia and Germany. Samsung dodged the German injunction by releasing a slightly-redesigned Galaxy Tab 10.1N. Meanwhile, the Australian ban was overturned last November.



    They need one of those who's suing who and who won where type of world maps.


     


    Samsung Galaxy Tab did not copy the iPad in the UK but did copy the iPad in Australia. Crazy but true.


     


    Perhaps they should close the UK website. I mean shutter it.

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  • Reply 32 of 315
    cpsrocpsro Posts: 3,284member


    We have to remember speech is not a fundamental right in the UK. Apparently not even in a court of law.

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  • Reply 33 of 315
    anantksundaramanantksundaram Posts: 20,419member


    Stuff like this makes "British justice" an oxymoron.


     


    What a foolish, laughable judge!

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  • Reply 34 of 315
    yojimbo007yojimbo007 Posts: 1,165member
    The judge is freaking out of his mind.. Riding high on a power trip.
    No way this can be held up.
    Stupid!
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  • Reply 35 of 315
    gustavgustav Posts: 829member

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    Originally Posted by therealestmc View Post


    It has to start somewhere. I am glad the judge ruled that way. The idea the square is invented by Apple is absolutely absurd. I like Apple products and all, but this one was a stupid suit to begin with. 



    If all you see is a square, I'm glad you are not a judge, or a designer. Tablets before the iPad were square too - do you think they look the same?

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  • Reply 36 of 315
    magic_almagic_al Posts: 325member


    This is completely stupid. Time for the Queen to use some of her theoretical reserve powers and intervene!

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  • Reply 37 of 315
    daharderdaharder Posts: 1,580member
    That is completely insane.

    You only feel that way because you happen to disagree, otherwise you'd likely deem it judicially 'innovative'.
    dpnorton82 wrote: »
    Is there precedence for a ruling like this?

    There certainly is now.

    Funny how that works. ;-)
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  • Reply 38 of 315
    galaxytabgalaxytab Posts: 122member
    I guess that's the cost of being "not cool". :p
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  • Reply 39 of 315
    teejay2012teejay2012 Posts: 434member


    "Justice is blind" ?.. Forgive me. I could not resist.


     


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  • Reply 40 of 315
    mbfan85mbfan85 Posts: 11member


    All the more reason for swift, substantive patent/copyright reform........ 

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