News - Apple requests permission to expand court case to GALAXY S III

[Nollauno]

Apple should stop now or be slapped in the face with an Anti-trust case like Microsoft was by Europe for the IE browser.

[TooNice]

Samsung and other Android makers should just leave the US alone and let them have a Apple only culture. The the fact the US courts are entertaining Apple's wishes and siding with them just shows that this won't end until Apple is dominant. Screw the Americans, let them be ripped off with Apple products if they are going to be complete trats ..

And, who do you think would benefit from that? The losers are plentiful, and it isn't Apple. The winner is not Samsung, nor Android for that matter.

But this is exactly the kind of posts that makes me doubt accusations of the US bias.

[kevinc6784]

I actually think Apple's stance on this can go along way to alienating even some of the most fervent apple fanboys. They really do appear to be trying to win an award for the most unpopular company of the year. I just wonder how much damage they could be doing to themselves.
Certainly any neutral is now on the side of Samsung.

Samsung FTW.

[rox0r]

I for one shall not be continuing with the iPads in our household, I genuinely hope they fall from grace in the most public fashion possible.

[kevinc6784]

Amen to that.

[kevinc6784]

I for one shall not be continuing with the iPads in our household, I genuinely hope they fall from grace in the most public fashion possible.

Amen to that.

[SineWave]

1) Yes! 2) Absolutely! 3) Indeed... there should be penalties for the attempt, though. 4) Me, too. 5) LOL YES!

[crossy]

I still think there should be an exponential cost based on number of patents held at the parent company level (to stop apple creating off shoot patent only companies).

There should also be a maintenance fee based on how many of these patents are held.
Apple might change there mind about patenting everything under the sun if they have to start forking out $1bn a year in patent fee's.

That wouldn't fly - in term's of patent's filed per annum I seem to remember that Apple's pretty far down the pecking order, certainly behind the traditional giants like HP and especially IBM. Unless your metric is "boneheaded and just plain trivial" patents in which case Apple's starting to look like an industry leader.

So any such arrangement would no doubt be strongly protested by the tech companies - "stifling innovation". I'm kind of in agreement with Hicks12 - that some of what Apple is "patenting" is actually "copyright" instead - e.g. the look of an icon set isn't an invention (like the vacuum cleaner example you used) but instead a "look and feel" thing like the Coca-Cola logo and typeface.

I think a government (WTO?) examination of Apple's tactics is long-overdue - their single-minded pursuit of Samsung does start to smack of persecution rather than prosecution, (and I don't count myself as a Samsung fan by any means - my S3 is my first and only Samsung device - other than the odd CD drive). As to Apple themselves, iPhone's and iPad's are off my purchase list anyway (because there's alternatives that suit me better out there), but I can't see myself buying (or recommending) anything iPod or from iTunes anytime soon.

[fatslag]

Apple will regret this stance when samsung limit the pips they need to actually manufacture apple products.....

[bendabanga]

More like; Apple requests permission to expand court case to monopolise the smartphone market.*

[crossy]

More like; Apple requests permission to expand court case to monopolise the smartphone market.*

True - why do you think that Apple's (so far) only targetted Samsung and HTC for persecution, sorry "prosecution"? As you say, it's little to do with IP protection and much to do with protecting market share.

Actually, this is one reason that I'm hoping that Nokia does a very good job with the new Lumia's - figuring that if they become too much of a threat then Apple will try and go after them. Given Microsoft's reputedly got a "no sue" deal on WP8, then it'll be Nokia-specific features that'll be the bone of contention, and I'm looking forward with glee to see Nokia's counter-suit. If Apple wanted to "go thermonuclear" on Android, then I suspect Nokia could probably unleash a supernova-sized suit if they wanted to.

[najiro]

Boooo Apple!!

[Biscuit]

Crossy - One day i would like to take you and the UK judge who did the Apple vs HTC case for a beer

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It seems that Samsung has sold 20 million Galaxy S3 phones.

[Camoxide]

Wont pass.
Galaxy S3 doesn't look remotely like an iDevice and is too crucial to Samsung's mobile business.

[crossy]

Wont pass.
Galaxy S3 doesn't look remotely like an iDevice and is too crucial to Samsung's mobile business.

AFAIK, they're going to argue that since the S3 bears some "family resemblance" to the S2 - and the S2 was found to be infringing. Also the S3 uses the latest version of TouchWiz, and the S2 version of TW was judged to be infringing.

It's the US legal system so plain old common sense doesn't figure!

And personally I too think it's a complete crock of s**t of a court case anyway.

What I don't understand is why Apple's allowed to put in this request while Samsung still has an appeal against the original (hopelessly flawed) decision pending? Doesn't this show a bit of contempt for the appeals court?