Post #12: Samsung vs. Apple in UK Court

Yesterday, Florian Mueller posted “UK judge declines Samsung’s job offer, invalidates three 3G standard-essential patents in Apple case.” Mueller mentioned that Samsung as of yesterday has lost to Apple in 25 standard-essential patent (SEP) assertions, and just of last week, Samsung lost 22 SEP assertions. I must say, Samsung really is not backing down, and impressed by their strength of keep fighting. Apparently, Samsung is not doing that well for any non-SEP assertions against Apple in the world. I thought EU just signed an agreement to unify the patent office in Europe. I guess the unified system has not taken places yet in time to deal with the Samsung vs. Apple case. It should be interesting to see how the system is going to play out especially when the German court ordered a retrial for Samsung, while the UK court did not. The difference in opinions between courts should be interesting to see how the case will play out. Especially this reminds me how the court in Australia has assigned two judges to the Samsung vs. Apple case.

For more information, please visit: http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/03/uk-judge-delines-samsungs-job-offer.html

Post #11: Samsung vs. Apple in German Court

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