Apple, Samsung both lose in South Korea patent case

[ManSnake]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/aus...orea-patent-case/story-fnawylxw-1226457608198

APPLE and Samsung infringed on each other's patents on mobile devices, a Seoul court ruled today, awarding damages to both technology giants and imposing a partial ban on product sales in South Korea.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Those seem like pretty piddly amounts. They only sought $84k from each other?

Also when it says the judge ordered each company to pay a certain amount, it doesn't say whether it was to each other (in which case Apple will have to pay Samsung a net amount of about $12k) or if they were fines paid to the government.

 

[Oyeve]

More importantly it was ruled that the company didn't copy the look and feel of the iPhone, and that Apple infringed on Samsung's wireless technology.

 

[Zaap]

Just goes to show corporations throwing the most stones shouldn't do business in glass towers.

 

[Mopetar]

Kind of meaningless if you read the article. The bans only cover older products that aren't really being sold anymore.

 

[makken]

But it said Samsung infringed Apple's patent for bounce-back technology. Apple's signature bounce-back design is the widely copied spring-back behaviour that occurs when a user reaches the edge of a document.

The court banned sales in South Korea of Apple's iPhone 4 and iPad 2, as well as Samsung's Galaxy S, Galaxy SII and Galaxy Nexus smartphones, and the Korean firm's Galaxy Tab and Galaxy 10.1 tablets.

AFAIK, the Galaxy Nexus does not do this; the overscroll behavior was changed in android 2.3 AOSP to a glow at the edges, not bounce back... why was this banned as well?

 

[cl-scott]

They just need a judge to say that until the companies can come up with some kind of an amicable arrangement, ALL of their products are banned in that country, specifically including current and as-yet to be released ones. I bet you'd see some kind of a deal struck in record time when the beancounters did the math on how much money it was costing them per day.

Or my personal favorite method, taken from a vintage BOFH story: You have a room with two chairs, each chair has a brick under it, you lock the two CEOs in the room and the last one left standing wins.