Samsung has fleshed out today’s statement on the most recent Apple legal ruling, pointing out that the judge threw out 9 of the 10 complaints Apple made against its Galaxy smartphone range in this case. Here’s the additional technical data published by Samsung:
The ruling found no IP infringements by Samsung GALAXY Tab devices. It found that Samsung’s GALAXY S, GALAXY S II, and GALAXY Ace infringed just one of the 10 IP rights which were cited in the lawsuit.
The court ruled that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, the parent company, may not sell the cited products in the Netherlands. This does not affect Samsung Electronics’ sales in the rest of Europe.
The court ruled that Samsung’s Netherlands-based subsidiaries may not sell the cited products in the Netherlands, the UK, France, Germany, Finland, Ireland, Lichtenstein, Luxemburg, Monaco, Sweden, Switzerland until the cited single infringement is addressed.
The ruling provides a grace period until Oct. 14 to address the single infringement cited.
Samsung has even put together a little table giving us a breakdown of today’s decision…
…illustrating that only one Apple patent, for flinging around photos in the phone’s gallery, has been deemed infringed by Samsung. Popular opinion among the software scene tonight is that an OS update could fix that issue. Making everything OK again, as long as there’s an update issued by October 14. And this is, therefore, a very big fuss about nothing.
Link via Flibblesan’s Twitter.
Bob
/ August 25, 2011good news
flibblesan
/ August 25, 2011Now I know how I suddenly got several new followers!
hecatae
/ August 25, 2011slide to unlock patent considered trivial and invalid:
http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/08/dutch-judge-considers-apples-slide-to.html
I remember the Neonode
Vince
/ August 25, 2011eat that crApple