For those who are out of the loop, Apple has been hard on Samsung's ass (in a long series of hard-on-assedness toward basically every hardware company under the sun) about the Galaxy Tab supposedly being a patent infringement on the iPad. Their claim, among other things, was that the following design drawing from Samsung: was somehow an infringement on the iPad's design. Because, you know, you can patent a cube shape with glass. For the UK ruling, here's what happened: http://admin.androidcentral.com/uk-...blicly-admit-samsung-did-not-copy-ipad-design http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18895384 They're gonna be sore for a while after this one. I just hope the appeal gets thrown.
Same company that tried to claim infringement on Google's phones because "a tap is a zero-length swipe." They deserve much worse.
lol'd at this part. "Their stuff it totally different from your stuff guys, its not as cool as yours. Oh and you should put that on your website. Tell everyone I said they're different because they're not as cool as the ipad."
They tried to sue Woolworths here in Australia a few years back because their new logo is an apple. F*cking ridiculous. http://www.theage.com.au/business/apple-bites-over-woolworths-logo-20091005-ghzr.html
You certianly can if you are the one to do it first. The case was thrown out because it appears apple didn't do it first so there patent is invalid. Edit: The BBC article for this case says that in this case Samsung just doesn't practice the patent. Turns out here are dozens of ongoing IP disputes between apple other smartphone manufacturers. I did read about one where apple got its patent invalidated.
Getting pilloried in the UK hasn't stopped them from trying to sue Samsung for 2.5 BILLION dollars here in the States.
Apple were probably just jealous of the total dominance Samsung has over the electronic devices market. "How can we make some quick and easy money from them? Oh, I know, make up bullshit!"