Thursday, December 12, 2013

Week 5 EOC

The Samsung and apple lawsuit is pretty funny. They both are the leading power houses in the phone world. They both have great products that everyone wants. If they get into a argument like this on side is going to end up paying. It seems that Samsung had ripped off apple of a few things “Apple filed claims against Samsung at the ITC in 2011, claiming that the company's products infringed several patents. An ITC judge agreed with Apple with regard to four patents, one of which relates to the basic design of the iPhone as a handheld rectangle with rounded corners.”
“Since then, Samsung has stopped selling many of those 26 products. But the case still has big ramifications, legal experts say, because the Federal Circuit could drastically redefine whether—or when—companies should be able to knock competitors' products off the shelves after findings of infringement.”
In this case it was stated that 26 of Samsung's products violated six Apple patents and awarded Apple $1.05 billion in damages.

But in the end the judge did not ban the sale of these products like apple wanted.

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