News - Samsung and Google unite in legal fight against Apple

[HEXUS]

“Working closely” says Samsung spokeswoman Lim Yoon-jeong.

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[Hicks12]

Finally, all manufacturers involved in Android should be joining together... im glad that Google has actually decided to jump in for a change, its getting ridiculous and to say £60mill for 1 month ban is a complete underestimate, theres much more damage than a pure sales figure, potential sales and market influence are effected.

Come on guys, destroy Apple with actual patents of things that arent already voided by 'prior' art.

Hopefully Apple just stops the trolling so everyone else can stop counter sueing and each company can get on with innovating, Apple has gotten lazy and is constantly stealing/copying from the competition yet is constantly trying to stop the competition using technology it actually copied in the first place... madness.

[Zeven]

I do hope they manage to teach Apple a lesson.

[Skywalker]

GO samsung and google, GO!. I think android still have LOADS of potential in it and if such corporations says war, than this shell be win! Quite excited on whats to come and I'm not even talking about MSI dedication to bring its customers tablets with down to earth price tag to begin with.

[King Jay]

Interesting....
Hopefully they can give Apple a taste of their own medicine.

[watercooled]

Interesting....
Hopefully they can give Apple a taste of their own medicine.

Exactly what I was thinking...

[Noxvayl]

I hope more manufacturers join in the fight against Apple, it is about time they get cut down to size. I was hoping Google would be able to damage Apples patent trolling with the Motorola acquisition and it looks like they intend on doing that.

[Jingee]

Are Apple really sinking to these depths, rather than focussing on innovation and technology people want? Quite a legacy you've left Steve.

[crossy]

Hopefully Apple just stops the trolling so everyone else can stop counter sueing and each company can get on with innovating, Apple has gotten lazy and is constantly stealing/copying from the competition yet is constantly trying to stop the competition using technology it actually copied in the first place... madness.

Agree 100% - well put.

Quite excited on whats to come and I'm not even talking about MSI dedication to bring its customers tablets with down to earth price tag to begin with.

Hmm, I must have missed that - unlike you were mistaking them for Asus - maker of the Nexus7, which seems to be regarded as having a "down to earth" price.

Actually I can't understand why Google seems to be content to take such a laid-back attitude to Apple's legal shenanigans, surely they must realise that it's damaging "Android" - their IP? I've also got to say that with the continual focus on Samsung (yes, I know they also had a pop at Motorola) it would seem (to me at least) that there's a group in Apple hell-bent on pursuing a vendetta. Heck, in a ridiculous way, the fact that Apple hate Samsung products so much perhaps makes them more desirable to some people (not me I hasten to add - I got an SIII merely because it's a darned good smartphone!)

I have no doubts that the current situation, with Apple dropping writs like autumn leaves, is a bad thing. So the faster they get a (long overdue?) major smack-down, the better I like it. Then, to quote Hicks12, "everyone else can stop counter sueing and each company can get on with innovating" - which as technofans - is something that we all (Apple, Android or WindowPhone fan) want to see.

[3dcandy]

Apple has been using it's cash mountain and legal expertise for years....sooner or later a few critical decisions WILL go against them and everything will settle down for a bit. Problem is that the current US patent system IS weighed in their favour...

[Brewster0101]

I wonder who the third company is that could be in the Gang. HTC ? Asus ? Sony maybe ?

[Tpyo]

So... What was the logic in it being a good thing to ban the Samsung items when the (ITC? I can't remember but from a recent patent-wars article anyway) was saying that banning Xboxes and iPhones (both from US companies) was a bad thing/would stifle innovation. - or did I just answer my own question.

PS - not a troll post - genuine request for someone more knowledgable to explain if there is a difference.

[mike306dt]

Apple are desperate for no competition, if the competitors products weren't better they wouldn't be bothered. Problem is, most competitors products are as good as, if not better than the apple product and almost always cheaper than the apple product too.

Apple are becoming a bit of a joke. As I write this there is an advert on tv for the macbook with retina display.

No thanks apple.

[loberts91]

Something needs to be done about the US legal patents office. There's a reason why this **** only goes on in the US, it's because they have a corrupt and moronic patenting office. You never see this level of stupidity being carried out in the UK courts.

[crossy]

I wonder who the third company is that could be in the Gang. HTC ? Asus ? Sony maybe ?

I'd put my small bet on HTC - they've already suffered at the hands of the "La Cosa d'Cupertino" and they've the most to lose. Asus - given their prominence with the Transformer and now the Nexus7 - would probably be my second choice, especially as I've remarked in the past that the TF's surely must be taking some minor amount of sales from the iPad.
Sony? No - from what I've heard they don't have much of a presence in the US - which'd make them an unlikely target. How about LG - they do well in the US?

Something needs to be done about the US legal patents office. There's a reason why this **** only goes on in the US, it's because they have a corrupt and moronic patenting office. You never see this level of stupidity being carried out in the UK courts.

Remember that there was that incredibly cretinous EU design copyright case last year (v's Samsung ... as usual!), so it's not just the USPTO that's got the copyright on stupidity. With the recent Oracle v's Google case I'd kind of hoped that the US "justice" system had (finally!) seen some sense - a hope that has been bitterly dashed by Judge Koh. Speaking of the honourable Koh - I'm interested to see that even pro-Apple press are describing the decisions as "unprecedented" - which sounds to me like a euphemism for "totally f---ed up".

[Brewster0101]

Something needs to be done about the US legal patents office. There's a reason why this **** only goes on in the US, it's because they have a corrupt and moronic patenting office. You never see this level of stupidity being carried out in the UK courts.

Not just the US, some questionable rulings happened in Germany that favoured Apple.