In today’s Foss Patents blog, Florian Mueller posted his
discussion, titled “German court keeps Samsung’s hopes alive by scheduling retrial
in 3G patent case against Apple.” Apparently Judge Andreas Voss ordered a retrial
for this summer because Apple has not yet provided any proof as a defendant in
a 3G standard-essential patent (SEP). Samsung has requested “an injunction
against the iPhone’s voiceover feature…, and one over a smiley input method
patent,” meanwhile Apple was not doing so swell against Samsung as well, besides
the success in temporarily removing the Galaxy Tab 10.1 from the market due to “Community
design (the European equivalent of a U.S. design patent).
The tug-of-war between Samsung and Apple in Europe for
patent issue does not seem to come to an end. I am actually impressed by how
these two companies can constantly find something from each other infringing
its own innovation. Maybe one of these companies should patent some version of software
that is used for searching key words in patents and filtering them out to match
the company’s own patent to see if the other company is infringing the idea. It
would definitely save them more time and resources for this never ending
tug-of-war between these two giants.
For more information, please visit: http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/03/german-court-keeps-samsungs-hopes-alive.html
We were moving towards ITC and I was then wondering if the ITC has any part to play when the lawsuit and patent war situation is out of the US, and whether being a US based company will have any effect as well. Seems like a ban of exports on products from US based firms by the ITC would not make much sense to me, especially since it will affect the GDP.
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